Ashlee Bucholtz | The Happening
The Happening | 2022
Acrylic on canvas
100 x 100 cm
Signed verso
$2,000
These two paintings celebrate the “nuances “ of unseen happening in the passing of time. I feel grateful to live in an environment that is very much alive! From witnessing the fog completely gobbling up the town to the over crown structures and pathways.
The Blue Mountain has this grandeur that leads you into the sublime. Whether it be the dense bush or the human made structures trying to capture our attentions! This has allowed me to image impossible colours with rich unseen layers.
BIO
Ashlee Bucholtz
Born 1987, Lithgow, NSW. Lives and works in the Blue Mountains, NSW.
Ashlee’s current painting practice focuses on the narrative of the invisible and our perception of the unknown. Her paintings pull at the underpinning structures of old spaces, memories and the sensation felt through my body. “For myself, the idea of memory, space and body are not clearly defined, and the veneer of these structures no longer resemble a function but instead a sensibility”.
These artworks demonstrate the amalgamation of reductive methods accompanied by a narrative. The viewer is presented with ambiguous shapes and spaces painted in unconventional colour. The purposely selected colour pallet of complementary pastels helps form a discord, creating a sensibility of something at calm and in discomfort. By using colour to express the sensory experience of the story, the painting can move beyond the memory and create something new.
Ashlee Bucholtz is a young emerging artist and a Graduate of the National Art School, Sydney (2016) and Newcastle Art School, Hunter Street TAFE (2013). Since completing her degree, Ashlee has been invited to exhibit at Gallery Factory 49, the Saatchi and Saatchi office exhibit, a Drawing Internship at the National Art School, The Bathurst Art Fair, & was recently selected to exhibit at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre for the 2021 Portraits Exhibition & the annual Collector’s Edition show.
But her highest achievement to date, was being selected for the international Cill Rialaig Artist Residency in Ireland, which she attended and practiced her craft in 2017.
