amanda thesiger
Bone
Oil on Canvas
2011
"By working intuitively through different processes and responses, a minds-eye image takes shape and the subject of each work comes into focus. A distillation of elements from landscape, the sea and natural history informs the scenes, structures and details that develop. Each work reveals itself gradually; the time invested in the making allows for discovery and change, leaving traces of this in the work. Often there are suggestions of forms perhaps glimpsed through a microscope or documented via a kind of botanical illustration. Subjects are often recorded on the move, perhaps receding or spinning; others assume a relationship where they are closely bound together as a group or in mid-flight with a partner; all inhabiting their own particular landscape." Thesigers artist statement.
http://www.amandathesiger.com/section637688.html
Thesiger work connects deeply within the subject I am working with. Throughout my work I wanted to create the sense of the belemnite fossil being excavated from the landscape, revealing itself gradually. Thesiger uses very natural subjects within her work in a very abstract way. For example some of her paintings are inspired by fish or bones or landscapes (http://www.amandathesiger.com/gallery_249626.html), all these natural subjects that can be found on this earth. Just like myself who collected belemnite fossils and painting directly from them.
http://www.amandathesiger.com/section637688.html
Thesiger work connects deeply within the subject I am working with. Throughout my work I wanted to create the sense of the belemnite fossil being excavated from the landscape, revealing itself gradually. Thesiger uses very natural subjects within her work in a very abstract way. For example some of her paintings are inspired by fish or bones or landscapes (http://www.amandathesiger.com/gallery_249626.html), all these natural subjects that can be found on this earth. Just like myself who collected belemnite fossils and painting directly from them.