An artistic collaboration occurs when two parties decide to work together to create something which is facilitated by an exchange of value.
Elizabeth and Linda have been studio partners for several years, formerly at Yellow Door Studio and currently at Praxis Art Studios. In 2020 they embarked on making a series of large scale collaborative works.
Essentially this process was an ongoing visual dialogue between the two artists, an exchange of ideas, conversations and experimentations. A variety of subject matters and motifs are woven through the works, they reflect on constructs of beauty and perceptions of identity from a female perspective. They strove to produce works that depicted their different painting styles synthetising to create unique pieces which are unified by the selected colour palettes.
Elizabeth’s work is informed by ideas of abstraction and figuration, it is an exploration of the physicality of paint and process which embraces accident and ambiguity. Her creative process is largely intuitive, paint is applied in layers, scratched back and reworked to create an impression of remembered moments. The intent of her work is to describe a feeling, evoke a response or excite viewer’s imagination.
Linda’s paintings reflect her interest in visual aesthetics as well as evocative subject matter. She is inspired by exotica found in crafted pieces or sourced elements of nature. Her art practice is essentially guided by the design principles of composition, balance, contrast, emphasis and unity – employing both graphic and decorative elements. Her work is underpinned with strong colour theory consideration which are employed to invoke an emotional response.