2023 | Ashley Tinker

While with The Museum of Loss and Renewal my focus was on creating work inspired by my new environment, and making use of the library to research and embrace greater complexity in my work.

My exploration was into a more organic way of working that allowed for spontaneity, a less representational and literal representation of landscape and excludes the pressure to create completed work for sale.

My period in residence was a self-imposed retreat, during which I could recalibrate with nature and myself while working on drawing techniques. Different from my normal medium of oil paint, my materials were pencil, watercolour and acrylic paint, used to explore landscapes with transposed colour, flirting with abstraction while I explored my own emotions and sense of self through self-portraiture.

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