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| CHANGING SEASONS |
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| Rosemary Bassett |
| Drawing and Painting, Leith School of Art |
| Elected Professional Member of Visual Arts Scotland 2008 |
| Rosemary Bassett has taken the title of her work, 'Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter ... and Spring' from the classic Buddhist film of the same title. It ends with Spring which is the place where we started and reminds us of the seasonal cyclical message. In the words of T. S. Eliot 'the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.' |
| She explains, "Poetry is an important starting point and it is threaded through the work. Because poetry can articulate ordinary people's feelings I am using it to express my form of awareness for human misuse of this beautiful planet. There is a strong link between the poetic text and the reality. The paintings are constructed with an important interplay between narrative and illustration." |
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She continues, "Collage is an exciting and unpredictable medium. I am using it to express my form of awareness for human misuse of this beautiful planet. There is a strong link between the poetic text and the reality. The paintings are constructed with an important interplay between narrative and illustration. Collage is an exciting and unpredictable medium. I have used water-based glues, simple home-based print techniques and recycled fragments of old paintings." |
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She explains further, "In each of the large paintings I am describing the tree as the anchor, a familiar living proof of the changing seasons; it represents the scaffolding against the backdrop of houses and hills and symbolises a strong creative support for our environment. The small paintings echo these thoughts. The tree is a reminder that everything is impermanent even although we see the stone and brick of our cities as solid and intractable." |
| "In our small ways, it is possible for us to work for change in our environment. Artists by their work can change minds as art parallels life. As each Spring comes round do we get any nearer to realising our limits?" |
| She concludes, "I want my paintings to create a space to decide whether we see things as they are or as they seem to be?" View the work. |
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© The Ruthven Gallery 2008. |