"Join artist Tansy Lee Moir in her studio as she introduces the themes behind her oil paintings and drawings exploring the complexity, vitality and sculptural presence of ancient trees. Hear how she develops her ideas, gain an insight into her creative process and find out more about the materials and techniques she uses".
Tansy Lee Moir website here
Bubbles will be, for a lot of people (in living memory at least) - associated with Covid and the legally-defined definitions of support and allowed connection. This soft word, describing a sense of safety, support and cocooning - has latterly become a pressure vessel of anxiety, uncertainty, inequality and rage. Much like the virus - mutating into something much darker - leaving feelings of manipulation, isolation, suspicion and despair.
Conversely, bubbles have also been a refuge and a huge reminder of the goodness that shows up and leaves love in the shape of food, offers of help and human contact by phone or online. They have been a chance to choose the positive - to notice (and live in) the here and now; to reflect and change.
2 metres apart and a world away tries to embrace some of these aspects and to capture the tension between ennui and a terrible anxiety - while Nature will be our salvation alludes to the beneficial connection between mental wellbeing and experience/observation of the natural world during lockdown.
2 metres apart and a world away
Acrylic paint/ink/crayon and pastel on paper
Framed size 20 x 16 Inch landscape (plain white frame + mat)
Nature will be our salvation
Acrylic paint/ink/crayon and pastel on paper
Framed size 20 x 16 Inch landscape (plain white frame + mat)