8 months 2024 Studio Artist.

Duende
LessonVIII_detail_oilonpaper_jpbarr2024.
8 months 2024 Studio Artist.

Duende
LessonVIII_detail_oilonpaper_jpbarr2024.
Vectors 2024.
Tools – Leica Dlux7/Adobe Fresco/Apple Pencil/ Illustrator and initial seawrack studies in pencil on paper.



quick iPhone photos



The Farm, Margaret River
Wadandi Boodja
In 2024 I will be working as a Studio Artist on The Farm. My focus during this time is to continue and expand on my seaweed and sea wrack drawing studies that I began in late 2021. Much gratitude to The Farm for having me.


Seaweed Heart is a hand drawn vector giclee print of sea wrack and it is based on sketches done in Cowaramup Bay, SW WA.
Seaweed is a blue carbon, quietly helping the planet survive human inhabitation. Sea Wrack is the mass of seaweeds and seagrasses that are cast ashore.
There's so much emotion and drama in seaweed and sea wrack- all tossed, entwined and wreathed. And its these connections between image and language, humanity and Nature , that i'm drawing on in Seaweed Heart.
The soft deep black of Seaweed Heart was only only achievable through the printing process and the addition of purple into the standard CMYK mix. The black is also purposefully fragile, the paper marks easily so the print must be handled with extra care.
A reminder for how we should treat the planet.