What I Sea
Kia whakapapa pounamu te moana
Kia tere karohirohi
I mua i tou hurarahi.
May the sea glisten as greenstone
May the shimmer of light
Ever dance across your pathway
What I sea:
Our lives are busy. It’s understandable that so many become blind to the state of our environment. It’s tempting to imagine everything will be fine, and our landscapes will always be beautiful.
I look for locations where industry and waterways meet to capture a moment of beauty. Among the pipes there is a play of sunlight on the water, the colours of the sea shimmer from teal to purple.
Looking for the beauty through the bits of plastic is like seeing someone who is bone tired smile. I want to share these at risk areas, as I see them - fragile, polluted and beautiful. It’s a reminder of how much we still have that's worth fighting for.
The Paintings:
In this series of oil on canvas paintings I want to capture the dynamism of a moment. I paint 'wet on wet', laying different colours against each other. Up close, when I am painting, it's a swirl of colour, but take a step back, the image completes. I love that you are making it as much with your eye as I am with my brush. That’s what I want to pass on. You aren't passive - we are all in this together.
Outside every picture frame is another world close by, a bridge, a power plant that you can't quite see but you know is there.