I’ve just updated my Artist Statement on this website to better reflect what gives meaning and purpose to my art. I felt the need to include this sentence, particularly the last part:
(My) expanded visual arts practice includes monoprints, text collages, and video, alongside vibrant abstract paintings, in a series of projects that attend to the beauty in our damaged world and to our brave attempts at building relationships across misunderstanding and conflict.
I make no apologies for using the word beauty. I feel an increasing urgency to rehabilitate the idea of beauty within art, in order to highlight what we may be destroying.
Your bravery was never in doubt. Acrylic on unstretched canvas, 200 x 200 cm. Lynne Cameron, 2019