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]]>“The paintings deal with the tensions and dichotomies in the depiction of the natural world and our relationship to it,” she relayed once in an interview with The Art and the Curious.
“I am concurrently exploring the sublime in nature whilst imbuing a sense of toxicity and artificiality in this depiction,” she notes.
The intention, according to Shaw, is to reflect upon the contradiction between our inherent connection to the natural world and continual distancing from it.
Using swirls of acrylic paint, ink, glitters and powders, Shaw mimics the flow of natural processes. According to Shaw, her interest in landscape painting began after a visit to Central Australia.
“A visit to Central Australia in 2004 really helped me coalesce ideas about the materiality of paint and how this could connect with the material world through landscape,” she relayed in an interview with Lost At E Minor. “The sedimentary layers of rocks literally looked like the paint I was playing around with in my studio, and it started from there.”
Having shown her work extensively throughout Australia, as well as New York, and Seoul, Shaw has also been included in prominent Australian art prizes.
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]]>She admits that color is often the starting point for her paintings. “I’ll try to think of a color combination that I haven’t used before, or think of how I can change certain colors in a landscape so that the value still makes sense for a day or night scene, but the color is something surprising,” she says.
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??Employing bright acrylic colors, her paintings often portray plants situated against mountains, clouds, or sun rays. Using as few pigment ingredients as possible, Lincoln mixes the colors with a brush on a paper palette. “Using few ingredients makes it easier to remember, and tends to keep the color really bright,” she explains.
Talking about her inspiration, she says that her mom has an incredible garden that has been a big creative outlet for her. “I think growing up next to a beautiful garden with a mom who was very enthusiastic about plants probably influenced my work,” she remarks.
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