Read to Me

2023

121.9 x 121.9cm
Acrylic & oil pastels on canvas

“I went into this exhibition not wanting a specific theme, but to rely on my creative intuition to lead the process; instead creating from instinct, having fun and playing with patterns. There’s still a lot of texture in this body of
work and I tried my hand at florals. It didn’t work out initially and I had to approach the work from a different perspective resulting in florals that are more structured, unlike my figures which free flow. This experimentation provided me with a good introduction to incorporating nature in my compositions and something to practically develop in future.
‘Adorn’ seemed fitting in relationship to the embellishments and patterns on the subjects, with the synergetic implied meaning that the paintings themselves ‘adorn’ the spaces they fill.” – Amber Kingi