 n this body of prints I have worked predominantly within the etching medium, burnishing aquatint to bring light out of dark.
The natural environment fascinates me. My relationship with the land is often explored in my prints, sometimes drawn from places significant to my history and personal development, other times in response to my cultures treatment of the earth. Symbols of isolation, island, lone tree represent home. Symbols of the human inhabitants' fighting spirit.
I want to encourage people to see the environment around us and consider the role it has in our lives. Are we influenced by the mood of a place or do we seek out environments that reflect our emotions?
Although we shape the land, it also shapes us. The coastal environment I grew up in is shaped by weather. Trees hunker down, seeking protection form those around them.
I often moved by a hill line, back lit by luminous bank of cloud or an isolated tree sculpted into a natural topiary by the wind. Half creature in shape, a tree may be imbued with a personality and playfulness. At times humorous, occasionally foreboding, the natural environment seems to have it's own spirit and voice if we stop to listen.
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| Education & Training |
| 1993-1996 |
bachelor of Fine Arts (printmaking)
Otago Plytechinc School of Art.Dunedin, New Zealand
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| Recent Exhibitions |
| 1995 |
Otaru sister City Exhibition,Otaru, Japan. |
| 1996 |
Nga Puna Waihanga,Dunedin,New Zealand.
Young Contemporaries, Southland Museum and Art Gallery,Invercargill, New Zealand.
Solo Exhibition, Apple & Eve Cafe,Dunedin, New Zealand.
Zeta's Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand.
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| 1997 |
Seven Exibition, Southland Museum and Art Gallery,Invercargill, New Zealand.
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| 1998 |
Kyla Cresswell & Zan Topp-Joint Show, Bond Street Galleries, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Cleveland Art Awards, Dunedin, New Zealand
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| 2001 |
Nagasaki Teachers Art Exhibition, Nagasaki,Japan
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