Belinda Fox, Driving me Backwards size: 61 x 92cm, medium: watercolour, drawing on board (lotus image)
Belinda Fox, A Thousand Miles Away size: 120 x 140cm, medium: watercolour, drawing and encaustic wax on board (bird)
“Having recently moved to Singapore this exhibition is very much about new beginnings, entry points, being an outsider – standing back, observing. The lotus images featured in a number of the works feel like abstract mirrored gateways to me – to unknown places. The web like design that hovers, binds and traverses most images is a form that goes back to work I produced nearly 20 years ago. It symbolises for me my foundations as an artist and it has shifted, grown and changed to be part of my future. It is a bridge…a strangle hold, or maybe a pathway… The setting so to speak is based around the Kerala backwaters in India. A beautiful, mysterious place I have travelled to and is currently under major stress with environmental issues. This ideal landscape as a tourist has an undertow of corruption, overuse, pollution, and risks of extinction. But nonetheless remains beautiful and unique. My work stems from the personal and hovers between humanitarian and global issues. I feel that it always strives to find beauty in the most unlikely places” – Belinda Fox.
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