Tanya Rose ‘Foliage’ Exhibition 13th April – 24th April 2023

In the lead up to this exhibition I started collecting native foliage and flowers from the garden and Australian bush.

I began experimenting with pressing the flowers and foliage and then photographing them on a light box. These photographs led me to focus on the shapes that the pressed foliage formed and the translucent nature of the materials. I became interested in tracing the foliage, drawing and cutting around the forms to create positive and negative stencil shapes. I experimented with a variety of paper stencils before using Yupo paper (a non-absorbent paper used in alcohol inks) to create my stencils. I had some canvas pads that I used for the surface material and laid the stencils on top spraying them with aerosol acrylic paint. By overlaying and over-lapping and respraying the stencils I have created a series of ethereal paintings. We get glimpses of the foliage through the translucent layers and by using aerosol spray paint the process has provided me with another way of painting without the means of a brush.