Sylvia Bews-Wright

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		The August Project represents explorations of the nearby beach and the driftwood structures built by daily visitors for a full month.
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	Inventing China explores the dynamic tension between old and new, construction and destruction, using rice paper collage as a metaphorical snake skin to represent the shedding of the past, the emerging of a new creation.
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		Run concerns the destruction, not just of salmon habitat, but of so many environments which, if prolonged, will result in the extinction of most species, including humanity..Working for the first time in several years from photographs of the sockeye run, the series features both small and very large canvases.
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	Float is an outgrowth of the Run series. Fascinated by water, reflections, refractions, distortions caught by the camera, the things our brains compensate for and we never see, the swimmers are caught isolated in the benign/threatening medium of water.
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		Patient Michael Ondaatje’s ‘English Patient” lies swathed in bandages, inscrutable, an unknown character, a central entity of the novel and film until gradually he is revealed, unwrapped through a series of flashbacks.
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	Echo Narcissus knelt to drink water from a quiet pool and instantly fell in love with his own reflection. Echo, his lover, called him urgently but failed to draw him away from his eternal gaze. Heartbroken, Echo pined and faded away until there was nothing left but her voice.
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		Echo 2 is a continuation of my exploration of the energies of plant life, particularly the calla lily . I have focused on deconstructing the shapes, on exploring form and pushing it to pure abstraction, at the same time retaining the energy of the flower as it emerges. The work is always informed by my study of particular flowers, the colours, shapes and dynamics of each species being paramount, even if barely suggested or merely conjured on the canvas.
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	Pendulum The whole world seems uneasy with itself as priorities shift and stability eludes us. This series of drawings looks for those split seconds of imbalance as some sort of impending change compels the body to catch itself, to avoid catastrophe, to seek stasis.
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		Crossing the Line is work from the Making a Mark Collective...
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	Christia's Pond My neighbour, Christa, has a couple of small ponds, not carefully manicured but largely left natural through the seasons.
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