Andrea Shaw and Natalie Martin
Day Trippers
About the exhibition:
The spark for this exhibition came from a handful of conversations through the Autumn of ‘21 with us both longing for some change to our studio practices, more social connection and some muchneeded adventure. Our plan was to take day trips to begin exploring en plein air painting together and capture our wonderful coast and surroundings. In the months to come, restrictions and weather hindered our grand plan. Instead, we met closer to home, painting weekly down by Spring Creek in Torquay. We both found our foray into working en plein air to be a really enjoyable challenge. We quickly realised how profoundly being surrounded by nature (for work) instantly shifted both of our conscious states, along with our visual perspectives and how this led us to create compositions, and marks that are new to both of us. We enjoyed rambling conversations of life and art and process along the way. The body of work for Day Trippers includes gouache, watercolour, wax crayon and pastel mediums explored on paper. Works were created along Spring Creek at many different spots, within the Ironbark Basin and in the Otways at the beautiful Sheoak picnic ground.
View the Catalogue for Day Trippers by Andrea Shaw and Natalie Martin here (please note, sales for this catalogue have now closed)
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