Stockroom Kyneton, gallery two
14 February / 29 March 2015
KIM BARTER
A Drawing in of Landscape
“I do my best work when I have the mental and emotional space to actually ‘be’ there. To be really present. Working in the bush, in deserts, by the sea and in the mountains, I can concentrate on what is central in the moment.
The environment is something I slowly begin to see in its completeness and majesty as well as in details, shapes, silhouettes, it’s patterns and rhythms. The contrasts and changes of mood between morning and evening light. Smells carried by winds, tracks and markings show endless significant journeys, vapour trails in skies. I fill sketchbooks with my observations.
It is a consciousness that busy lives are often forced to or choose to ignore and that makes my experience very precious to me because I am able to be where I want to be. So my work is an attempt to share my feelings and observations with others. It is an attempt to honour my own experience.
My books ‘invite’ the viewer into the landscape of my mind and into the environment. The larger paper works, (or large pages) attempt to express the context of the books in a living way. They are to honour the magnitude of the natural world. They are to excite and create visual interest and experience.”
