Description
Geraldine RICHARDS
Victoria
‘South of Balcombe Creek’ 2025
acrylic on canvas
41 x 41cm
South of Balcombe Creek is part of a series that reflects on my relationship with the lands I have lived on. I see this relationship as a metaphor for my feeling-life, and I use it as a device to navigate living between the past and present. While colour links me to the depths of my creative process, my aesthetic comes from growing up in the modern era of design. Specifically this artwork is a dream-like representation of memories of being at Mt Martha in my childhood. We lived on the cliff, close to the edge. I experience recurring images of this cliff, the water and the rocks below. Sometimes when I am going to sleep, a particular image comes to me where I am out on the sandbanks walking slowly barefoot towards the rocks and the shallow water. South of Balcombe Creek encompasses my interest in all the ways we can calm ourselves, including being on the beach, creating art, looking at art, and imagining my body-memories in new ways.
