About the work:
These new works are inspired by travels to botanical gardens in the U.K. and Morocco and to sinkholes and mangroves in Mexico. They focus on the reflected patterns of roots and tropical plants on the surfaces of fairly still bodies of water, explored with a harmonious and vivid colour palette.
Abigail’s lucid depiction of light and shape evoke a feeling of movement and serenity at the same time. The artist makes pilgrimages to these places of tranquillity which have particular shapes and colour palettes. The mangroves and sinkholes in Mexico especially, provide a changeable palette of intense turquoises brought out from the calcium in the water.
The ever- changing imagery reflected on the surface of water has, for millennia, been a powerful allure to contemplation and reflection. Hermann Hesse wrote about this subject in his classic work “Siddhartha”. Water is also a very political subject, especially in Mexico. The artist calls attention to her belief that the successful future of our species will be intrinsically tied up with how we deal with distributing and balancing the quality of water sources.
Abigail’s watercolour work, remarkable in its scale and intensity of colour, as well an in the particular surface texture perceptible in the unglazed pieces, challenges the perception of what a watercolour painting is and can be.
Abigail’s lucid depiction of light and shape evoke a feeling of movement and serenity at the same time. The artist makes pilgrimages to these places of tranquillity which have particular shapes and colour palettes. The mangroves and sinkholes in Mexico especially, provide a changeable palette of intense turquoises brought out from the calcium in the water.
The ever- changing imagery reflected on the surface of water has, for millennia, been a powerful allure to contemplation and reflection. Hermann Hesse wrote about this subject in his classic work “Siddhartha”. Water is also a very political subject, especially in Mexico. The artist calls attention to her belief that the successful future of our species will be intrinsically tied up with how we deal with distributing and balancing the quality of water sources.
Abigail’s watercolour work, remarkable in its scale and intensity of colour, as well an in the particular surface texture perceptible in the unglazed pieces, challenges the perception of what a watercolour painting is and can be.
Watch the film about Abigail researching in Mexico: