Wendy Stokes – Resilience I

Artist Statement

For over 5 decades I have inhabited and walked in coastal landscapes; a fluid geography, where edges shift, boundaries blend, experiences past and present fuse. My work negotiates these spaces as a form of cartography, echoing the felt vibrations of my journey immersed in this atmospheric landscape.

Printmaking asks for a paring down to a subject’s underlying structure. The plates are a result of direct markmaking on the blocks on site combined with sketchbook notations to seek out the rhythms of place. In Resilience I the scale and reserve of the paper as an open surface is pivotal to the work, opening ambiguous readings of space, fusing boundaries between traditional landscape readings and an eastern sensibility while Walking Drawing III –Nocturne is a response to the shift in solidity and structure as evening becomes night.

My prints draw from the integrity of such experiences.