Forest Flickers
2023
A collection of abstract green paintings, inspired by flickering light through forest canopies and undulating shadows on the ground below.
These artworks seek to bring the restorative qualities of nature's palette inside, to soothe stress and refresh the energy at home.
See, touch, feel
Experience the quality of the materials and the exact colours before choosing your final pieces.
These samples are colour accurate giclée miniature prints, on the same sustainable bamboo paper as the full-sized artworks.
The process
There are times in the studio when it feels as though magic is flowing through the space, the paint, the brush.
A single, rippling movement. A burst of energy. Part of a larger dance with life.
There’s no way to predict what will result. Of hundreds of paintings, there are a handful that will sing with more clarity and honesty than the rest.
These paintings ask you to release control. To be present for the ripples of energy and emotion that travel through your body.
A salve for stress
In the midst of bustling cities and overwhelming online life, how can you create a sanctuary that soothes?
By drawing from the intelligence of nature to nourish and settle a strained nervous system.
In studies, greens have been proven to shift mood, encourage creativity and reduce anxiety.
A Feng Shui perspective
In the practice of Feng Shui, greens, blues, and teal represent the Wood element. They enhance the New Beginnings and Wealth sections of the home.
These shapes and colours can be harnessed to turn the page to your next life chapter and allow fresh opportunities to flow.
A visualisation
Imagine
You adjust your balance
to the undulations of understory.
The gentle pad of your steps
supported by ages of earth
beneath you.
You navigate over and around
enormous, ancestral roots.
And enjoy the satisfying snap
of tiny fallen twigs underfoot.
Drink in the forest air;
to quench an ancient thirst.
The subtle citrus scent of resin
and damp soil fills your lungs.
Breeze plays tag with branches
and brushes your cheek on its way.
Towering canopies
are thick with bird babble.
Their rippling, inky shadows
slow-dance surround you.
And within them,
fronds of ferns unfurl.
Silvery bluish lichen curls.
Beyond, golden ribbons of rays
reach down through the thicket.
They sprinkle the forest floor
with lustrous, dappled, confetti.
You step into the spotlight,
onto a carpet of olive moss.
Cushioned, buoyant.
As the sun catches,
you watch it bloom.
Rich honey hues.
Above, a chorus of leaves
shimmer and sigh.
Lit from behind,
thousands of paper lanterns.
Your body hums in harmony
with all of nature.
Resuming its place,
as though it had lost
neither time nor space.
Here in the verdant vastness,
that vibrates with quiet magic.
Borrow from a botanical palette
When you're in need of the body and soul support that the forest offers, remember that you can borrow from nature's palette.
Utilising greens that works with your nervous system, and reminds you that you are made of the same ingredients as all of nature.
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished"
- Lao Tzu