Contemplating Abstract Curiosity: Studio Diary - February 2022

Charlotte Wensley
Feb 17, 2022
2 min read

Updated: 3 days ago

The new year has brought with it a fresh and exciting energy for exploring and expanding my mindset as I consider my purpose for making my paintings.

I've been contemplating 'curiosity'.

What happens when we allow ourselves to allow for abstract curiosity in the studio? What if we think about our art process as a way to ask questions rather than a way of creating answers? If we approach our art making with curiosity as our reason for doing it, does it change the way we think about the resulting artwork?

Big questions, so I set some limitations!

I was curious to know what kind of art I could make working only on a small scale, on cradled timber panels (a new surface for me), using limited colours and materials and with a deadline!

Working with 'curiosity' front and centre of my decision making, I found an overwhelming liberty to experiment and explore, combining materials and colours in ways that have created a whole new vocabulary of shapes, textures and compositions. Limiting my colours encouraged me to really explore values and contrast in new ways.

And so a strong visual story emerged which developed a momentum of its own, and allowed me to contemplate our often untapped capacity for creative invention when our stated purpose is simply just to be curious.

| New Abstract 'Curiosity' Paintings

I'm excited to share these paintings with you in a preview of 'Curiosity' on Friday 18th February.

I'll email you a link which will be valid until Sunday 27th February.

About the work:

13 mixed media paintings on cradled panel.

Size range - 20 cm x 20 cm ($250) to 41 cm x 41 cm ($990)

Ready to hang - no framing required.

Free shipping.

Abstract art exhibition details with a pink and blue painting

| You're Invited!

Arts Connect Inc Members Exhibition - Opening Friday 4th February

Old Ambulance Station, 80 Howard Street, Nambour.

Come along and see what promises to be a diverse collection of eclectic work from our local artists network, including two paintings from my Distillation Series.

Look forward to seeing you there!