Still At Home
Series : Still At Home
This image became the title piece for Fi's solo Exhibition and the continuing series. 'Still @ Home', Mandoon Estate, Linton and Kay Galleries 2021. This image depicts a collection of items from around her home, including the Scarlet banksia, Banksia Coccinea which was included as "just prior to creating this image, we had had our first field trip in a long time, into the Great Southern and Two Peoples Bay near Albany and had seen these beauties for the first time in all their flowering glory. They are incredibly difficult to paint but utterly glorious to see and remember".
For some Indigenous people it is understood that Banksia may be seen to symbolise the season of light, warmth and fire.
A little background about this Series:
This series began life during the pandemic lockdowns.
"Painting in this style was a particularly relaxing kind of therapy for me during the highs and lows of the pandemic. I found it really difficult to paint in my usual intuitive, unplanned way, where many decisions and a kind of relaxed mindset are required. Instead I started to scribble and draw from my imagination into a scrap exercise book - playing with Margaret Prestons style and arrangement concept.
Mostly, I made the subjects up from imagined still life arrangements, often drawing my favourite native plants in detail and then simplifying them to make them 'paintable' and to develop my own 'style' around them - I sometimes used items from around the house, items that belonged to my mother, grandmother and mother-in-law to hold and communicate ideas that were rushing around my often 'lockdown' mind. As the idea developed I began to add magpies, my much favoured symbolic bird, to the arrangements and then after around 2 years painting mostly in this way, I felt I had resolved all that I had to say using this style and genre. It was a side project that became a main project, the lockdown now over I felt I needed another focus and the series 'Wander Out Yonder' has mostly provided this. The time spent creating The Still @ Home Series allowed me to find valuable creative time exploring, experimenting and playing in a new kind of playground - something I am continually grateful for as the series has been much loved and well received body of work and has been used in a variety of formats and made some truly lovely connections with its buyers. I believe I will occasionally revisit the topic, to add to it, as life evolves."
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A limited number are produced of between 20 and 200. These are produced on request. Each one is signed and numbered by hand. This is visible on the lower edge on the paper print, but is on the edge of the canvas and will not be visible when stretched.
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Prints over 50 cm in measurement are large format prints and are signed and come with a print certificate. Canvas prints are signed on the back .Smaller prints are not signed.
To facilitate stretching a boarder of plain canvas, or black canvas (on the Still @ Home series) is added to the image edge.
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