KIM WESTCOTT: COLOURED RAIN

OPENING THURSDAY 7 MAY, 6 pm

5 BEDFORD ST, COLLINGWOOD

"Coloured Rain explores the intertwined emotions that arise through the forest that inspires my artwork; stillness, turbulence and renewal continually unfolds and connects me with my surroundings. I create branch forms, and shifting veils of colour which echo the forest’s own cycles of coloured light and shadow. These forms absorb and release colour much like we absorb and release experiences.

In the process of painting, I am trying to create a living environment: nature appears, dissolves, and re-emerges, creating a sense of movement that connects to the pulse of my immediate environment. For me, these paintings imagine rain as coloured and ever-changing, a metaphor for the shifting feelings that move through me and for the environmental changes shaping our natural world.

The symbolism of coloured rain speaks to emotional transformation, the idea that healing and growth, like rain, arrives in waves. Branches develop and fall, rain comes and goes, and colours gather in unexpected ways. Coloured Rain is a depiction of my connection with nature and a record of shifting emotional weather through layers of paint that accumulate like rainfall."

- Kim Westcott