#275 Memoryscape (Garden with sunflowers and pencil pines) | Leah Bullen
Watercolour, gouache and monotype on paper
WINNER: BEST IN SHOW | 2D PAINTING/DRAWING
Height: 79cm. Width: 85cm.
I started this work of a garden before the hardest part of the drought. For me gardens and gardening have always been a place and an activity centred around family, the beauty of nature and tranquillity. Memoryscape has gained a new currency over this challenging summer. It is a landscape of personal memories, daydreams and nostalgia — a landscape of ecological grief.
My paintings depict sites that recreate the natural world, like gardens or aquariums. These places act as a kind of ‘theatre of the real’ where we experience nature as an approximation. I consider these locations as being conceptually linked to the act of representational painting itself, which reimagines the world through illusion.
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