Juliet Boustred b1958 Johannesburg explores the tenacious survival and ancient mystery of trees surviving for hundreds of years in a wilderness environment.
She employs a minimalist technique of ink wash to examine the sculptural quality of trees. Her ink and watercolour compositions eliminate clutter, revealing the essential structure of her subject.
In her drawings of giraffe and zebra, a complex and visually confusing design is carefully recorded with precise artistic decision making. Her deployment of limiting her palette using ink on richly textured hand made papers focusses the eye and transports the mind into the pervasive peacefulness and perfect silence of the bush.
The Shepherd Tree (Boscia Albertrunca) holds mythical connotations through countless generations for its numerous nurturing factors, here described as honed and gnarled by the wind and climatic dryness.
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