Anthea Polson, Listening Softly To The Whispers Of The World, 2022. Acrylic on canvas, 152 x 106cm. Courtesy: the artist and Anthea Polson Art.

Art has long been considered a mirror where glimpses of life’s meaning may be experienced. Imbued with a rich fabric of otherness, symbolism and imagination, the intricate depictions in Jill Lewis‘ works defy convention and category. Interior and exterior, visible and invisible, ancient and new, meld together in a lyricism that evokes the power of possibility. Everything is connected.

Along with allegorical implications that in some cases extend to environmental concerns, each of Lewis’s canvases share a compositional connectivity in figure, shape and colour placement. She explains that the narrative outcomes rarely begin with a preconceived intent. They arise intuitively by allowing initial gestural strokes and markings across the surface to stimulate imaginative possibilities. Liberated from perspective considerations, her compositional elements conjoin in a spatial ambiguity that elevates us beyond temporal concerns. We are drawn into imagery synchronously alive in past, present and future realms and recognise that all life is fundamentally connected.

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