a time and a place

“I love how my artworks grow and evolve with every mark made or action taken so that in the end, just like a knitted jumper, the whole becomes more than the sum of its parts.”
Zoë Nash is a diverse visual artist working across a range of creative disciplines. Her works are a colourful, playful, and celebratory exploration of mark making, pattern, process, repetition and accumulation. The works are vibrant, joyful and life-affirming. They dance between spaces, between foreground and background, revelation and concealment, then and now.
Zoë also has a strong interest in autobiography, memory and nostalgia. She is fascinated by how the sharing of stories can help us not only to make connections with others, but also gain a better understanding of our sense of self. Her works are often inspired by things seen and words spoken. Personal experiences are explored as a means of reaching out to others, hoping that they too will see in the work something that evokes a memory or tugs at the heart… a conversation that can be shared, a connection made.
With a love of nature and outdoor spaces, Zoë’s works increasingly draws on selected plant specimens and specific places as starting points. Colour is used both emotively and as a means to disrupt spatial depth. Conscious mark making is part of the intuitive process of addition, analysis, cross referencing, constant editing and refining. Works begin with no clear outcome but a firm underlying intention that drives each piece towards its ultimate conclusion.