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Home Series, by Lindsey Elizabeth Ross

24/2/2018

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Pen and ink has long been my medium of choice, because it’s just about unforgiving.  There’s no undo button- when a stroke goes rogue, you’re forced to work with it.  The ability to create something beautiful from that rogue stroke has always been deeply satisfying to me.  My process does always begin in pencil, but just as an outline.  The real work is done with pen, in varying lines widths.

Drawing is the most meditative exercise I experience.  As you can see in my work, there is a great deal of time spent repeating a small detail again and again.  This is where I create my space for reflection, and is why creating artwork is so important to me.

When designing a piece, I love to include small nostalgic subjects.  They can symbolize a place that I’ve had on my mind, or a community I’m pining for.  My more recent works have been quite Canadian themed, dreamt up when I was longing to be surrounded by familiar sights and my own traditions.

That same sense of nostalgia is what I most want to instil in my audience.  My work will often include whimsical figures to be found, which are intended to pique that same emotion.  The images inside a piece aren’t always clear from the beginning, and I enjoy witnessing the sense of achievement my audience can have by finding something new.

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    Sometimes Dutch words are hard to pronounce based on spelling!

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    Huisje Gallery is a small space to see new work.

    Hanging:  artworks will hang 15 cm from the wall

    Wall space: 
    H90 x 122W cm

    Plinth: 
    H108 x W57 x D26 cm

    Artists must provide a written statement (1 page max), which will be displayed with the work.

    Visitors will be provided guidelines to give the artist constructive critique.

    This is intended to help the artist learn about their work in a friendly, no-pressure space.  As well, it is intended to build arts literacy and strengthen our community.
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