Katrina Beissel, Louise Nade, Rachel Carroll — 'Meandering'

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Meandering

Following a winding course

Branches twisting, rivers snaking, paths winding, roads rambling.

Gathering materials, searching for a reference, reflecting on meaning, sensing place.

Subject and process merge into one act of creation.

‘Meandering’ is the coming together of 3 artists (Louise Nade, Rachel Carroll and Katrina Beissel) who have flowed with the twists and turns of life to arrive at this point in time. LIfe’s journey is never linear and the interest often lies in the deviations, time taken to wander and wonder, to see, understand and find meaning. The title infers layers of meaning. ‘Meandering: (The act of) following a winding course’ points to the art-making process: of collecting materials, scoping sites, searching for references, interlacing fibres, motioning paint across canvas.

‘Meandering’ also describes the subject matter: twisted branches, winding roads, snaking rivers, rambling paths, woven vessels. These objects of the natural and man-made world are imperfect, flawed and deviating. It is within the parentheses of quiet time, carved out for being and creating, that we realise the process and the product merge into the one act of creation. And we embrace the perfect imperfection of the work and our journeys, the ‘unstraightforwardness’ of a life well-lived.

KATRINA BEISSEL

Katrina Beissel ‘Macedon Meanderings’ – $1200

Katrina Beissel ‘Before the Fall’ – $900

Katrina Beissel ‘Finding the Way Back’ – $500

Katrina Beissel ‘Three Beacons to Light the Way’ – $500

Katrina Beissel ‘Wheelies in the Mist’ – $500

Katrina Beissel ‘Heading Home’ – $500

Katrina Beissel ‘Path to the Golden Staircase’ – $900

Katrina Beissel ‘Follow the Course’ – $900

Katrina Beissel ‘Treading Gently’ – $700

Katrina Beissel ‘Going With the Flow’ – $700

Katrina Beissel ‘Autumn Mist, Wentworth Falls’ — $1200

Katrina Beissel ‘Light Around Every Corner’ – $700

Katrina Beissel ‘Pool of Siloam’ – $900

Katrina Beissel ‘Carved Out of Time’ – $700

LOUISE NADE

RACHEL CARROLL

Rachel Carroll ‘Twilight Astronomical’

Rachel Carroll ‘Green Afternoon Walk’ — $1500

Rachel Carroll ‘Hill End, Bathurst Road’ — $3500

Rachel Carroll ‘Walk with Butterflys, Bathurst Road’ — $2500

Rachel Carroll ‘Faded Hillside’ — $1100

Rachel Carroll ‘A Walk Through Hill End at Dusk’ — $400

Rachel Carroll ‘Civil Twilight’ — $400

Rachel Carroll ‘Afternoon walk in the light’ — $3500

ABOUT KATRINA BEISSEL

Katrina Beissel is a painter with a focus on landscape and still/moving life, creating in Northern Sydney and the Blue Mountains. An important focus of Katrina’s work is to capture the magic of light, through subtle changes in tone. Conveying a felt sense of a moment in time, she aims to convey the tranquility, infinity and wonder of the natural world and our reliance on it for physical, emotional and spiritual well-being.

Find out more @katrinabeisselart

ABOUT LOUISE NADE

Louise Nade is a multidisciplinary artist and sculptor from the Northern Beaches who engages with various mediums including found, reclaimed, natural resources and traditional materials. One of the key themes in Lou’s work is her exploration of the concept of ‘waste’. By working with materials that might be discarded or overlooked, she raises questions about the value we assign to resources, their interconnectedness and impact on the world.

Find out more @littlelouartist

ABOUT RACHEL CARROLL

Rachel Carroll lives and paints on the Northern Beaches, as well as travelling to places of environmental significance. Light, and its movement, energy and purpose, is the focus of her semi-abstract landscape paintings. Rachel sees art as a vehicle to communicate on another level, to challenge what we see and how we experience life. This could simply be to see our everyday existence as if for the first time.

Find out more @rachelcarrollartist