BREATH - Jazz VI - Jazz Lines Series

JAZZ VI – BREATH

‘The very essence of life. Without the filling of lungs, the steady rhythmic in and out of air, there is no life. We cannot even speak without breath. Breath is also essential in music, to create vibration and energy for sound waves, and even for instruments that don’t use breath for creating sounds, I promise you it is still foundational to shaping the music. Breathing does not simply exist in the background, steady and slow - it will actually be bound into the fabric of the sound, slow and sighing to support a gentle melody, a quick full inhale just before a vigorous energetic passage, perhaps held at the apex of an inhale during a heart-rending moment before tumbling out a release.
This purposeful control of breath is part of what gives music its soul. As we were breathed into life, so do we breathe our music alive. It is another creative element that makes us human.’

COLOUR AND MEDIUM INFO
Painted with Acrylic paints on 300gsm watercolour paper, 70x100cm in size. Will need framing under acrylic or glass.
‘Breath’ features a butterscotch caramel and rusty brown, soft pinks, dusky rose, with turquoise, blue and a pop of chartreuse. Full of beautiful lyrical shapes and intriguing perspective.
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SERIES INFO
‘Jazz Lines’ series is an exploration of the soulful nature of jazz. Curvaceous bold lines represent the underlying structured nature of jazz. But like jazz music, the simplest sections can hold the most complex of chords, single notes falling and merging into the next, easing through twists and turns with a sensuous beauty. Bone melting vibrato tugs at heart strings and evokes emotions long locked away, melting together in the layered complexities that is Jazz. These pieces are painted on large art paper, and designed to showcases the strong movement, relying on shape and colour to paint the music. Subtle perspective shifts draw you in as you engage with the works over time.
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FRAMING INFO
This artwork needs to be framed behind acrylic or lightweight glass to protect the paper.
If you’d like it to be delivered framed, I’m more than happy to arrange that. This would be an extra cost and can be confirmed upon request of frame type.
You are also most welcome to come view and pick up the work in person, I am in Officer, Victoria.

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Much of my painting intertwines musical form and musical language into each composition, exploring the possibilities in transferring musical energy (sound waves) into visual energy (light waves) via paint, and I am continually exploring lyrical movement, pattern, rhythm, melody and harmony as colour and form. Sometimes I love to paint simplified forms of specific melodies and sounds, while other paintings are inspired by the emotions and meaning of songs, music, and words.

I am fascinated by the timeless and infinite nature of music and memory and how they defy linear time. In a single moment, we can touch the world Mozart lived in, transport the soul of the Baroque to us, we can hear what our ancestors heard - echoes of past transcending centuries and carried in to the future. This is a part of what inspires me to paint, giving visual form to those ideas.

My world was immersed in music when I was 6 years old, and I studied through to University, where I completed a Bachelor of Music majoring in flute performance, musicology, ethnomusicology & performing arts. From this life-long pursuit of music, I draw from a broad palette of musical styles and experience, and an ever-growing library of sound inspiration. My faith has also been a steady companion and is a major part of my creative process, ' ma raison d'être ' - painting has a meditative, prayerful quality that centers me each day, drawing me into a contemplative state that connects me to the unseen. It is a process of surrender to allow the work to become what it needs to be.

I would be honoured to have your support, and I hope my work brings moments of reflection and conversation and beauty. Art is made for interaction, and without your thoughts and responses the work is silent.