Orchids have always been a favourite flower for me. They conjure imagery of victorian glasshouses filled with collected specimens and rooms full of natural history and curiosities. I made this piece with all of this imagery in mind so it was very natural for it to have green stripes. I often find that I choose a strong blue for my main subject as it will rarely appear this way in nature. I like to use art as an escape from reality and a reminder of the freedom that creating brings into our lives. I suppose for me it's symbolic of the painting coming from my imagination.
Jade Orchid (M)
Artwork Details
Medium | Mixed Media, Wood, Ready to hang |
Dimensions | 30cm (W) x 40cm (H) x 2.4cm (D) |
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Artist Bio
Bianca Harrington is an emerging multi-disciplinary artist from Melbourne Australia.
With a background in textiles, she had previously lived in London where she studied and worked as a Milliner. Working with London’s most prestigious milliners gave her a chance to observe and learn from others in their creative practice, seeding her own path to becoming an artist. It was through this experience that she refined her skills in combining and balancing texture, form and colour.
Relocating back to Melbourne she began taking lessons in botanical illustration. This formed the foundation for her work as an artist, discovering a never ending appetite to express herself through the medium of paint, working from her imagination, intuition and inclination towards experimentation.
Merging scissors with paintbrush, her recent mixed media works combine her lifelong practice of skills to create work that possesses a characteristic sense of space with a highly textural hand, balancing both calm and playful qualities. Common themes in Bianca’s work portray simplified table scapes, botanicals and threads of folk symbolism.
Her work reveals subtle symbols arising from sparks of awe witnessed in day to day life, past travels or a museum trip. Small marks and imperfect shapes, aesthetic gestures of the lived experience.
Bianca’s current and former creative disciplines contribute to the narrative of her work, producing her own distinctive and ever-experimental articulation of contemporary art and design.
Bianca’s work is held in private collections around the world.