Emmeline Batten
As it goes
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Life goes on, and so too does enjoyment
As a young person grappling to understand my place in this world, I’ve come to believe that connections are all we really have. When someone cannot see, participate nor even enjoy these connections, life becomes very hard. For sanity's sake, I am interested in getting a kick out of the little things. These works are created from incidental moments, unplanned and a little dishevelled. These paintings celebrate the significance of little moments; friends enjoying an outdoor brazier or a gig in a backyard. Being human is a unique experience and the exploration of it is endless; nostalgia, perspective, attitude, connection, grounded (but only in our minds and bodies). This celebration is really about painting, how these lines and colours and marks connect to ideas — and how they might connect us.
I don’t think I can bear another morose painting. I am interested in the boisterous, but grounded. Dishevelled in enjoyment. Form, line and colour, layers and attention to ground excite me. I paint nature, yet I’m not interested in ‘landscape’ and its problems. I am a human and engaged in what that means. I am engaged by how figures can be placed in an environment and given the same painterly manipulation as their surroundings. Feeling and sensibility are the most important considerations for me. The question is, how to extract the experience and the rawness of a moment without allowing perfect composition, perspective or detail to get in the way? How can paint function to help us reminisce on the enjoyment of our human experience.
