Nerina Lascelles
BIOGRAPHY
Nerina is an accomplished Melbourne Artist who has been exhibiting in Australia and internationally for over 20 years. Her paintings are part of private collections in Australia, Singapore, UK, America and Japan. She is currently an artist in residence at Dunmoochin in Cottlesbridge.
Nerina draws on her influence from her many years of travel to, and study the wisdom and symbolism of a number of Asian countries. Past exhibitions have been influenced by traveling to and exploring the culture and spirituality of countries including Indonesia, China, Tibet, India, Sri Lanka and Nepal.
Inspiration for her work has derived from different cultures of the earth which may offer the Western culture a glimpse of a different and perhaps more honourable and balanced way of being. "In her philosophy, Nerina Lascelles starts with the proposition that the role of the artist of to depict the sacred. It is the sacred things in the art of other traditions and cultures that primarily inspires Lascelles' art practice.
Nerina's most recent influences have been drawn from travel to Japan. These paintings consist of a pastiche of origami paper and fragments of kimonos along with gold and silver leaf, acrylic paint, bitumen and encaustic wax. All these materials have been combined to create works that reflect the antique objects that inspire them while standing on their own as objects of beauty"
Peter Dougherty - Arts Editor, Leader Newspapers, Melbourne.
BIOGRAPHY
Nerina is an accomplished Melbourne Artist who has been exhibiting in Australia and internationally for over 20 years. Her paintings are part of private collections in Australia, Singapore, UK, America and Japan. She is currently an artist in residence at Dunmoochin in Cottlesbridge.
Nerina draws on her influence from her many years of travel to, and study the wisdom and symbolism of a number of Asian countries. Past exhibitions have been influenced by traveling to and exploring the culture and spirituality of countries including Indonesia, China, Tibet, India, Sri Lanka and Nepal.
Inspiration for her work has derived from different cultures of the earth which may offer the Western culture a glimpse of a different and perhaps more honourable and balanced way of being. "In her philosophy, Nerina Lascelles starts with the proposition that the role of the artist of to depict the sacred. It is the sacred things in the art of other traditions and cultures that primarily inspires Lascelles' art practice.
Nerina's most recent influences have been drawn from travel to Japan. These paintings consist of a pastiche of origami paper and fragments of kimonos along with gold and silver leaf, acrylic paint, bitumen and encaustic wax. All these materials have been combined to create works that reflect the antique objects that inspire them while standing on their own as objects of beauty"
Peter Dougherty - Arts Editor, Leader Newspapers, Melbourne.
"For me, the highest aim of creating these works is to offer the viewer an invitation into the realm of beauty beyond form. The paintings are material objects which arose, through meditation, from the invisible and which, at their highest function, will offer the viewer a doorway to their own invisible realm within."
Nerina Lascelles
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