Nadia Rice

Bucolic I, 2016

Nadia Rice

• Charcoal on Fabriano Paper
• 38 x 38cm

• Artist Statement

  The work explores the nature of time passing
  and forms a connection to the secluded moments
  portrayed. The circle is a lens, through which you
  can observe the documentation of someone else’s
  experience. It elevates the act of purely observing
  your surroundings, and finding the beauty there.
  The viewer stands in the place of the creator,
  sharing this moment of isolation and encounter.
  The primary means of expression is drawing, relying
  on the detail to draw the viewer into these locations,
  based in reality but through the process of recreation
  altered to become a personal interpretation. The
  leading path occurring in nature and architectural
  form is employed to create the spaces, intimate &
  universal.
  The drawings are inspired by both on-location life
  experience and collected from photographs of these
  environments, becoming an externalization of the
  internal workings of the way each person perceives
  differently. This is a transfer, a movement of a
  personal inner world, a relocation of flashes of imagery
  and snippets of brain activity into a viewable medium