20

20 is a collaboration between my son Jai and I. Sometimes I find staring at a blank canvas too confronting. If something is already on it, I feel I can add to or improve upon it. It's a mental thing...
20 started with Jai's collection of dark figures. Then i (being an idealist) added as much colour and vibrancy as humanly possible to try to balance it out again to possess a feeling of positivity.

20 pertains to number of sticks scratched in orange. Upon completing this painting, I could then view the mindset I had been in retrospectively. It was only then that I realized that I have outgrown 20 versions of myself. I am not the same person I once was. Yes I am older and wiser-but I needed to be all of those previous versions of myself to become who I am.

Follow

Brooke's a self taught artist and teacher based in beautiful East Gippsland, Victoria. Mother of three, lover of home, animals, beaches, nature and travel.
Her twenty year career has largely involved teaching and facilitating community arts projects using the medium of mosaics. She has also done several artist residencies in schools. In 2017 she began her journey with paint. Her process is experimental. She rarely plans her work, but rather finds letting the process unravel organically and curiously the best approach.
Over time she has developed her colourful abstract style that would become her signature. "Practicing art is all about "play". When I'm in the zone, I'm in a place of mindfulness-completely immersed in the moment. In this space I'm able to access my inner child and subconscious".
She uses her son's name on her social media pages. Bohdi Taylor Artist.