Annerose Georgeson

Pine cones and shadows
2020 
48x60"
oil painting on canvas

I sat out on the beetle killed pine stumps near our house and drew what was on the ground right by my feet. Almost every day in the last two years, in good weather, I mapped all the little bits, such as spruce needles, tiny sticks and cones, in my sketchbook. 

Early in the spring, all the bits were flattened by the snow and laid out like a carpet and a top down view worked well. Later, as the plants grew, I shifted my viewpoint slightly to a low side view. 

These sketchbook drawings of the ground are the source material for the Forest Floor series of paintings. They are about the chaotic jumble and messy tangle that is the bush. I wrote in my sketchbook, "so much chaos and yet out in the middle of it new growth, new life, beauty".

BIO

Annerose Georgeson is a visual artist living near Vanderhoof. She has shown her artwork in many solo exhibitions in public galleries in BC and Alberta

Georgeson has a BFA in Visual Arts from UVic and was the artist in residence at CNC- Nechako for five years. She was the curator of Red and Blue Beetle Art, a regional touring exhibition about the impact of the mountain pine beetle. She has taught art to adults and children for many years and facilitates many community arts projects.

Georgeson’s art is based on imagery from nature. She is currently working on a series of paintings about the forest floor.

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