Andrea Turner — Small Wood and Other Stories

My main preoccupation, in both visual art and writing, centres on the way our inner landscape informs our experience and understanding of the external (natural) landscape and how the relational dance between the two results in individually unique interpretations.

I aim to capture and transcribe something of this inner/outer dance in paint and in poetry, allowing what asks to speak in the moment to be heard, while trying not to impose ideas or thoughts. In this way my work becomes an unfolding discovery for me.

My work begins with close observation of visual matter along with a deep listening both of which bring me to presence, allowing images to be stored in my memory in vivid detail. Working from these visual memories, using written notes and sometimes actual objects, I can begin painting or writing.

Usually, I have no idea how a finished work will look, the work revealing itself…