About this artwork

Eileen Lawrence’s work is directly rooted in landscape and the experience of particular geographies. Lawrence carefully observes objects gathered from nature, recording and meditating on their individual characteristics in meticulous detail. The reoccurring motifs of her visual vocabulary – feathers, eggs, reeds, and twigs – function as visual and spiritual evocations of a place. Lawerence also frequently incorporates the same natural materials, such as fragments of feathers, into the pulp of her handmade papers. In this watercolour, a set of weathered twigs stretch across a long central panel, flanked by two horizontal sections of greylag goose feathers. Strips of handmade paper join the individual sections.  Simultaneously repetitive and distinctive as images, they read like a form of visual poetry, each image brimming with symbolic resonance. 

Published September 2023

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Eileen Lawrence

Eileen Lawrence