Annie-Rose Fiddian-Green: Breathing with Trees , Brooke-Walder Gallery, London, 14 June – 14 July 2024 . . I’m really interested in how your work collectively tries to capture the ‘ever-changing earth’.
I’m curious about how you choose to convey this dynamic aspect of nature through your work? Fluid, dynamic lines, expressive marks and absolutely no rubbers! Every mark I make is left on the paper as a direct and pure expression of the transience and impermanence of life. Be it a tree, or a portrait, I work to capture something alive, breathing, something aging and borderless. What we see in the flesh is a container for an invisible world, my work explores this place of the unknown.
We only get to appreciate a fraction of what is truly going on in nature. When a drawing is overworked, or not moving in the right direction, I simply have to start again as I don’t like to rub out anything as often as it means l lose a freshness within my swirling drawings. I love the immediacy of the first marks on blank paper.
This is often where I can see my own energy coming through. Breathing with Trees marks your return to drawing in its purest form. What do you enjoy about working with the medium? It’s simple; pencil and paper are uncomplicated.
Life can be complicated so sometimes returning to the rudimentary tools can be liberating. Drawing will always be my home, it’s where my art began as a child and is fundamental to my art journey. I love the scratchy, hard lines of pe.
