10 artworks by Veryan Edwards (Selection)
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Drawing and observation of life is the ground on which my work is built but Metaphysics is a central[...]
Drawing and observation of life is the ground on which my work is built but Metaphysics is a central focus and interest and is reflected in what I do. The work concerns not only life as it is led in Botswana but in general. Usually, it is abstract with some occasional use of figurative images. I believe that abstraction is the style of art that leaves the viewer most open to their own perspective and interpretation and the work is thereby more interactive.
For the current exhibition, “FRAGILE”, I decided to do a series of work that uses this ‘drawing’ to make comments on the nature of life as I experience it. To me, it also celebrates Africa through its flora and fauna as that is an important part of what being here means to me. I am not so much interested in arriving at the quintessential “African landscape” as talking about the fragments that I experience and which mean something to me. No-one really experiences the “whole” of anywhere. After the dust and dryness of winter, spring comes as that welcome Gift and it is what I most like to record in watercolour. I love visiting the bush and watching the life there and seeing the poignancy of tracks left in the sand; often all you ever see of the larger creatures. The comment embodied in each work is not always desperately serious because there is much joy in life if one remains grateful for what one has. Life is ephemeral so we have to engage in the moment and we are lucky if we are able to do so.
I believe that we all “frame” our experiences, which are usually fragmented. It is our understanding that allows us to see the bigger “picture”; how the fragments fit into the bigger scheme of things. The interconnectedness of life remains an ongoing issue for me and here it is represented by using netting or “spider’s web’ cloth to suspend work against a white background (the void). The frames are often incorporated into the body of the work itself and the whole piece is one unit. I enjoy working in a variety of ways and abstraction remains central to me. It is an underlying thread in all my work. I find even drawing from life is a process of abstraction – after all, Cezanne said that there are no lines in nature. We are translating what we see into something on a page; creating three dimensions on a two-dimensional surface. Sometimes, this can be “realistic” but it depends how you see and interpret things and the use of realism on paper or a canvas expresses the fragility of perception and the illusory nature of reality.
“Fragile” is about all these strands of life: illusion, the ephemeral, the fragments, the interconnections, celebrating the moment and seeing the bigger ‘picture’. I hope that it says something to you. And perhaps something beyond or beneath my immediate awareness.
I wish to thank Ann Done for the frames that have become part of the work and the Frame Gallery for the presentation of the work and the rest of the framing. I wish to express deep gratitude to Renee Eisen for her hard work in promoting this show and for enabling it to happen in the first place.
For the current exhibition, “FRAGILE”, I decided to do a series of work that uses this ‘drawing’ to make comments on the nature of life as I experience it. To me, it also celebrates Africa through its flora and fauna as that is an important part of what being here means to me. I am not so much interested in arriving at the quintessential “African landscape” as talking about the fragments that I experience and which mean something to me. No-one really experiences the “whole” of anywhere. After the dust and dryness of winter, spring comes as that welcome Gift and it is what I most like to record in watercolour. I love visiting the bush and watching the life there and seeing the poignancy of tracks left in the sand; often all you ever see of the larger creatures. The comment embodied in each work is not always desperately serious because there is much joy in life if one remains grateful for what one has. Life is ephemeral so we have to engage in the moment and we are lucky if we are able to do so.
I believe that we all “frame” our experiences, which are usually fragmented. It is our understanding that allows us to see the bigger “picture”; how the fragments fit into the bigger scheme of things. The interconnectedness of life remains an ongoing issue for me and here it is represented by using netting or “spider’s web’ cloth to suspend work against a white background (the void). The frames are often incorporated into the body of the work itself and the whole piece is one unit. I enjoy working in a variety of ways and abstraction remains central to me. It is an underlying thread in all my work. I find even drawing from life is a process of abstraction – after all, Cezanne said that there are no lines in nature. We are translating what we see into something on a page; creating three dimensions on a two-dimensional surface. Sometimes, this can be “realistic” but it depends how you see and interpret things and the use of realism on paper or a canvas expresses the fragility of perception and the illusory nature of reality.
“Fragile” is about all these strands of life: illusion, the ephemeral, the fragments, the interconnections, celebrating the moment and seeing the bigger ‘picture’. I hope that it says something to you. And perhaps something beyond or beneath my immediate awareness.
I wish to thank Ann Done for the frames that have become part of the work and the Frame Gallery for the presentation of the work and the rest of the framing. I wish to express deep gratitude to Renee Eisen for her hard work in promoting this show and for enabling it to happen in the first place.
"Fragile Earth"
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"Starting point"
Oil | 21.3x33.5 in
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"Natural DNA"
Oil | 22.8x18.9 in
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"Woman in Web"
Oil | 29.9x0.4 in
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"Nature in passing"
Oil | 18.9x29.9 in
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"Back to Nature"
Oil | 5.9x4.7 in
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"Man Embedded"
Oil | 29.9x0.4 in
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"Endangered"
Oil | 18.9x25.6 in
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"Water"
Oil | 30.7x0.4 in
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"Fragile Ego"
Oil | 17.7x19.7 in
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