Work in progress 1996 - 202?

2024 Art takes time and sometimes it's best to allow it to develop at it's own pace. A series I have been working on since 1996 - and continue to add to - is an amalgamation of several processes. 

Each time I do a workshop and learn a new technique, I incorporate it into this series.

                        

   

I have used: mono-printing, screen printing, Letterpress Printing, Digital printing, Lithography, Batik, Shibori, Eco dying, Cyanotype, and other processes. Then I have layered and paper cut before sandwiching the layers using resin and acrylic. Binding the layers with an outer rim of copper foil. 

At this stage I am unsure if I will assemble them together using a led lighting technique or use them in a mobile. Decisions! Decisions!

I adore the process and learning new techniques far more than entering work into an exhibition or participating in the end game of selling.

CROSSDALE5

 Toogoolawah Regional Art Gallery

Saturday July 24,  2021

 Five artists from Crossdale, Queensland - Sharon, Shirley, Jane, Ian, Jan

Sharon Lee

With fear of climate change and the arrival of Covid-19, 2020-21 encouraged me to coddiwomple - to travel purposefully forward to an as-yet-unknown destination. En route discovering how necessary it is that we maintain hope. 

With hope in mind, I have created bright, multi-layered narratives. Each a visual haiku of the memories I yearn to keep and dearly hope persist. 

                            

These works on canvas started on a black background, and over this I have layered acrylic glazes to establish the painting, before finishing with rich lushness and viscosity of oils; the brightness signifying new beginnings and growth. The inclusion of birds represents: wisdom, adaptation, diligence, rebirth, courage and all the many attributes we will need to use to repair and maintain our ecosystem.

These small 30cm x 30cm works display my continuing appreciation for nature and her ability to re-calibrate and rejuvenate, without ignoring the undesirable aspects of: a world without; a world with too much; and a world which cannot sustain.

At the commencement of my coddiwompling story and at the end, I have placed sculptures with a serious question in mind, If nature was watching would you be kinder? A third sculpture designed as a nest, while asking the same question, does hint at the chance of new beginnings. Each piece combines the use of found objects, paper clay, acrylic and resin.

Clay, Ply, Resin 60cm diameter