Tracy Dods | View to Shipley
View to Shipley | 2024
122 x 200 cm
Acrylic on canvas
$ 5,400
After nearly 40 years of exhibiting and 18 years living in the Blue Mountains/Central West.
I wanted to pull together my strengths as an artist, my gestural drawing and control of liquid mediums and my high detailed brush work to capture the soft evening light as well as the stark bare beauty of the Central West.
The yin and the yang of the soft fluidity of the liquid acrylic combined with the strong colour and line work of the acrylic paint.
Although I no longer grind my own ink these teachings have informed my works on paper since learning the fundamentals of Sumi-e The Japanese way of the brush. As a teenager, I was so lucky to have a well known Sumi-e artist in Kuranda where I grew up, who taught me these techniques. Similar to the taoist calligraphy paintings it was all about balancing the yin and yang, using the whole arm and shoulder to make marks, loading the brush and achieving the right gradation of ink to water. I have since modified these techniques, making them into my own style.
These works are made with liquid acrylic and acrylic polymer paint on cotton canvas with sustainable hardwood stretchers.
Tracy Dods
’Much of my work depicts the lushness of the human form alongside the exciting colours of Australia’s beaches. The sea has such a strong calling for me in that it can be a frightening thing, vast, unknown and destructive. Yet, conversely, it can be a meditative thing with its constant motion, its horizon, while its expansiveness stimulates the senses. I feel that it has a big role in the Australian psyche’.
Tracy Dods
