Wild geometry

With artist Pam Walpole

Pam and Adrienne both live near the sea and in February this year they took a sketching holiday together, to the sea. Bundling up their sketches and giant canvas at the end of that week and returning to their home studios, they’ve spent the year working and sending images back and forth. This ebb and flow became an uninterrupted conversation about the colour, shape and texture of the wild geometry on shores they’d been exploring. Compositions and colour have been shaped by the tessellated rock platforms and pools in Yamba, the jagged island coastlines off Scotland, the strike of a tree trunk across a field of view, and mangrove pods floating to their next grounding place.

Despite exchanges about its ‘tricky nature’, they’ve also plunged into the dangerous waters of painting with greens. Pam and Adrienne have loved the companionship of another joint project even though they worked almost 300km apart, and agree they have stretched and celebrated each others’ practices in these new landscapes.