Wood for the Trees - Disconnect I

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A collection of 20 small format works, made in acrylics on reused palette wood.

 

A distortion of the colour and an exaggeration of the limb-like branches of the Stone Pine is used to bring the subject closer to the human - producing a dramatic and unsettling image. This image is then broken down into smaller units creating abstracted and ambiguous forms. The original is consequently no longer seen as a whole.

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The Stone or Umbrella Pine is a tree with a robust root system -  a tree tolerant to poor soil and

a dry climate, a tree resistant to disease and pests, a tree used to stabilise and protect coastal areas

from dune erosion. A tree that is increasingly under threat from urbanisation and touristification.