Audio Transcript
It’s Antoinette Ferwerda and I’d like to share with you my Floriana art story, which is inspired by foliage.
Rather than flowers and blooms, I wanted to celebrate the leaves, as these do lots of work for the plant.
The story finds beauty in the capillaries and veins, which are normally found on the inside of the leaf.
I’ve brought these with ink work to the exterior of the leaf to remind us of the network of capillaries and veins that exist and connections within the plant overall.
In the Floriana series, Ferwerda has adopted a more reductive approach in comparison to the Champagne Poppy series. The floral forms that are similar to those that we see in the Champagne Poppy series are more abstracted and ambiguous. One can see remnants of the formalistic elements of the Champagne Poppy series in the flattened surrounding areas which saturate the painterly areas. The stark juxtaposition between gestural textured strokes and graphic modes of representation creates a very seductive effect.
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