Resin on wood
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POOLSIDE, BEVERLY HILLS HOTEL uses a melting mix of terracotta, green, pastel pink & blue, with metallic gold accents to represent the essence of the iconic Los Angeles institution, The Beverly Hills Hotel. This piece captures the colours taken in while relaxing poolside; the pastel building with terracotta tiles, the luscious green plants & palms and the dazzling blue of the pool & sky. The added lacing of metallic gold adds the final note of luxury, a LaLa Land essential.
Poolside, BHH is a multilayered resin piece, with great visual depth. The reflective quality of the resin offers a transitional display that changes in different exposures to light throughout the day. Different colours within the piece are amplified in different lighting conditions, with the greatest spectacle being the shimmer of metallic gold accents and lacing, a signature imprint Kate applies to all her resin pieces.
It is hard to capture the reflective quality & depth of a resin piece within a photograph, so Kate captures a quick video of her pieces. See 2 videos of Poolside, BHH here: www.katepowellart.com/poolside-beverly-hills-hotel
Fascinated by texture and colour, Kate is a self-taught Australian artist working across Resin and Acrylic mediums to produce offerings of painterly and abstract escapism. Kate’s resin work is an intuitive practice, conveying an abstract response to her internal dialogue, drawing on an ever changing landscape of inspiration and mood. Themes of harmony and discord presented through the unpredictable nature of the medium, reflect a therapeutic working process which utilises a necessary practice of surrender and relinquishment of control.