Flowers Look Back at Me brings together my two most favoured pursuits – painting and gardening. The parallels between the two require devotion, attention, time and both practices allow me to achieve a stillness within the chaos.
This new body of work has enabled me to explore the realm between my everyday, and the space where fantasy and magic afford me the opportunity to be really free. Anthropomorphic and florid forms vibrate within fields of both imagined and experienced landscapes. Recognisable motifs and amulets, mountainous forms and nods to both architecture and the decorative, render layers of meaning and opportunity.
Miranda Skoczek, November 2023
Image: Soul Work II, 2023, oil and acrylic on canvas, 153 x 137 cm
