Tapestry

Tapestry

“Tapestry” coloured pencil drawing, 31.5 x 31.5 cm. July 2023.

At the upper section of Araluen Botanic Park in Perth’s hills are the rose gardens. Rose and salvia bushes are framed by a backdrop of both native eucalyptus and introduced deciduous trees – the latter in autumn leaf.

This drawing changes depending on your viewing distance from it. It comes together from across a room so I invite you to move back from your screen to create a little distance between you and it.

“Tapestry” is in the same genre as these two below; my aim in each of them is to suggest a dreamy atmosphere of space and light in nature.

“Transcendence” coloured pencil drawing, 28 x 41 cm. drawn in 2022.

and…

“Day Trip to Giverny” a drawing made after my visit to Monet’s garden. 33 x 42 cm. Drawn in 2018.

“Day Trip to Giverny” (2018) is a favourite of my drawings and it hangs on my bedroom wall. It gave me courage to attempt “Tapestry” and reassured me when I doubted my ability to make this latest drawing work.