Anna- Victoria Cartwright: Cheshire, United Kingdom; Through the disciplines of drawing and painting, my work investigates themes of change, loss and memory. Each work aims to be visually elusive, with forms that change; focus and dissolve, resemble, and yet remain symbolic, without direct representation. The lack of clarity provides both visual and metaphorical content. Taking visual inspiration from smoke, mist and cloud patterns, presents ambiguous and amorphous activity, and this allows me to create a tension through opposites such as light and dark, hope and despair, and tranquility and unease. Through the secrecy and threat of darkness, I hope there to emerge a fold of light, offering affirmations of beauty and hope. These relationships allow for suggestions of fragility and delicacy, whilst also evoking intensity and strength. Through the process of layering oil paint and graphite, emerges a veil of self-protection, cloaking content, and encouraging quiet dialogue. The restricted colour palette and selective use of line and intricate mark-making, extends the dialogue between aesthetics, content and form.

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