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Most of my work over the past few years has been concerned with recording memories of visits to the coast of Wales. Each time I visit, I return with a new set of visual stimuli from which to work. This might result in a series of watercolours, a suite of photographs, or paintings on canvas, depending on what has caught my eye. I also make handmade books of collages and poetry, and explore plant and shoreline forms through making original collagraph prints.
I am intrigued by how we store memories of places in the mind, not in photographic detail, but as sequences of hazy abstractions which may or may not be an actual record, but which exist as an essence of reality. Forms within the paintings become squares, circles, curves and bands of colour and texture, allowing the viewer to make their own associations. I enjoy letting the essential properties of the painting materials play a part in this process. There is no shouting about the weather, rather a quiet satisfaction in holding a sea worn pebble with hints of precious crystals within.
So, yes, the work is abstract, but my inspiration is firmly rooted in the natural world...... the subtle colours of cliff and stone, the ‘calligraphy’ of washed up seaweed, the relentless pull of the tide, the sound of wind and wave....
Estella Scholes
Fine Art
Fine Art