Featured artwork. ‘Wishing Upon Dreams’ by Katherine Wood.
The latest thrilling exhibition at Traffic Jam Galleries features the glorious work of Katherine Wood, in a series of beach scenes highlighting her magnificent use of line, texture and composition. The works are delicately yet strongly layered and textured.
Katherine Wood is originally from South Africa but she and her family now live on the Sunshine Coast.
Wood’s work can best be described as ‘abstract imaginings’ blending the divide between traditional landscape and contemporary abstraction.
Wood loves the ocean – in her works its deceptively calm presence and the sense of space at the beach is also revealed as a place to hope and dream for the future or, alternatively, to reflect on the past.
Wood’s paintings vary, some depict white, shimmering seascapes on a summer’s day, as in It’s A New Day, whilst others feature rough textured rocks and/or seaweed, and the swirling dangerous surging crashing waves of winter, with ominous clouds such as in Breaking It In. Often a tiny human figure, or her signature tree, is included to indicate the dominance of nature.
One unusual work is Persistence which features a floating balloon of goldfish trapped in a clear plastic bag where the water line of the bag acts as the horizon line.
Never Collide is like a painting on a Japanese scroll with its delicate brushstrokes.
Wood says, “My art is not about reproducing reality; but capturing the energy that creates it.”
Katherine Wood’s exhibition EBB AND FLOW is featured at the Traffic Jam Galleries until the 23rd November.