Land and Light

Land and Light invites a sense of call and response between landscape and human perception. It invites viewers to slow down their looking and to consider the underlying embodied nature of forming a sense of place. Perceiving the landscape is an action of the human imagination that serves to create a sense of place. It places the human in greater frame of awareness.

These works explore two locations in the Victorian Landscape, The Grampians and Mount Buffalo. Emma was drawn to these places due to their unique and monumental presence within the physical landscape, as well for their mental and embodied impact. The physical and emotional responses to each place are explored through delicate mark making and watercolour. They record the microcosmic shift of surface and detail against the vast sense of sublime weight of form and light. These are presented as single views, or works in series.

These works place the viewer in a matrix of light and dark, that renews a sense of wonder and visual delight, and draws us into the mystery of place.