Her Laden Tamarillo Tree by Olivia Courtney

“Her Laden Tamarillo Tree” is a body of paintings that explore and reminisce the fond memories Olivia has collected spending time with her Nana.
Memory is a recent and new direction Olivia has been navigating in her painting practice. Previously only mediating the formal language of painting through collage, Olivia felt stuck in her work, limiting the context of her paintings to process. Revisiting memories has allowed Olivia to gather a new language needed to create and resolve the space on the canvas.
‘Summer Holiday’ by Cliff Richard playing in the background, the gingham tablecloth at every dinner, the lolly jar! Using these memories as prompts, Olivia responds to them by extracting and intuitively arranging colour, materiality and form.
These paintings are asking you to spend time with them, each mark, movement, spread and pour. This process and these works embody a sense of feeling, a moment that is contemplative and emotional.