Sandra Pearce - Visual Artist
In my art practice I work with paper and natural fibres, gathering natural materials like spent plant fibres and animal traces. I use these materials in my art, forming my materials into sculptural works, using them as natural dyes for paper or incorporating them in my printmaking processes.
I specialise in the printmaking technique of monoprinting - I relish the painterly effects and atmospheric images that I can create with a good dose of serendipity to take
away total control of the outcome. I use plant materials, stencils and other found objects to develop images on paper, creating layers of rich colour and flowing marks. I’m interested in the shape of things, squiggly lines and delicious textures.
For my sculptures, I collect seed inflorescence from various palm trees and sensitively weave and wrap the fibres incorporating other materials such as felt and thread....the gentle repetition of creation transforming them into art objects. The tactile quality of this process awakens me to the wonder and transience inherent in all that is natural.
The images and objects I create seek to describe my perceptions and relationship
with the natural world, rather than try to replicate it in a representational manner.
I use the approach of repetition and accumulation of organic motifs to compound meaning.
Composition is often improvised in the process of execution, injecting a feeling of spontaneity and free expression into my work.
I specialise in the printmaking technique of monoprinting - I relish the painterly effects and atmospheric images that I can create with a good dose of serendipity to take
away total control of the outcome. I use plant materials, stencils and other found objects to develop images on paper, creating layers of rich colour and flowing marks. I’m interested in the shape of things, squiggly lines and delicious textures.
For my sculptures, I collect seed inflorescence from various palm trees and sensitively weave and wrap the fibres incorporating other materials such as felt and thread....the gentle repetition of creation transforming them into art objects. The tactile quality of this process awakens me to the wonder and transience inherent in all that is natural.
The images and objects I create seek to describe my perceptions and relationship
with the natural world, rather than try to replicate it in a representational manner.
I use the approach of repetition and accumulation of organic motifs to compound meaning.
Composition is often improvised in the process of execution, injecting a feeling of spontaneity and free expression into my work.
