MOLLY CAWTHORN - PAINTER

Mixed media landscape artist exploring nature, belonging and colour in abstract memory paintings.

In her work, she explores the theme of language and mark-making in depth. She picks out patterns in nature (like tree bark or rivers) from specific places she has visited and studied to play with the distinction of written communication: where “language” and “image” could be discerned.

In her "Vaporscapes" series, Molly investigates diaspora and the feelings it inspires and causes within nature and landscape; both negative and positive. Molly's "Vaporscapes" series is split into seasonal groups to reflect and study change via plein-air each colour studies.

Now, almost at the close of her first year of dedicating her artwork to this series, she anticipates how each season, each year, will be different. She hopes to incite feelings both contextual and individual within each work through both literal imagery and through emotional painterly techniques.

The colours she chooses for each season and work are very specific: her monochromatic works depict her interest in the interaction of the chosen colours against shade and light which can vary perception drastically.