NEW WORKS

I have been developing new paintings and unique fine art objects together, that interact to form a narrative environment.
The fine art objects include elaborately painted benches and weather vanes. Mundane objects, the benches invite the viewer to remain. The weather vanes, provide unpredictable movement. They invoke loss because weather vanes have disappeared from the landscape wherever you look. They call from the past into the future with their harnessing of wind energy. The vanes imply the need for movement which contrasts the benches invitation to remain. As I have both remained in Tasmania and left it at the same time.
The imagery of the paintings flows off the flat surface onto the forms of the objects, creating a dialog between them. The artwork will envelop and transport the viewers on a spectacular journey, one that evokes a multiplicity of readings. I want it to suggest the mystery of nature, its wildness and its underlying structure and to remind us of human history—what we have done to others and have brought upon ourselves.
- Garry Nichols