Avalanche!, Westwind Series
2015
Oil, Encaustic and Natural Inclusions on Birch Panel
17x38 inches
Hot wax as motion captured.
Flowing, flying, falling; taking up and hurling itself and pieces of the land beneath it.
Down towards a new, more settled resting place.
Destruction and renewal in its wake.
The Westwind series speaks of a prevailing wind;
and not necessarily meaning an air movement in a specific direction.
Sometimes landscape speaks, not of a place but a time;
of global uncertainty, questioning previously unshakeable ground
that we once thought we stood upon, when we stood upon the earth.
Flowing, flying, falling; taking up and hurling itself and pieces of the land beneath it.
Down towards a new, more settled resting place.
Destruction and renewal in its wake.
The Westwind series speaks of a prevailing wind;
and not necessarily meaning an air movement in a specific direction.
Sometimes landscape speaks, not of a place but a time;
of global uncertainty, questioning previously unshakeable ground
that we once thought we stood upon, when we stood upon the earth.
Sharon Hogg is a visual artist working in Calgary Alberta and Lombardy Ontario, Canada. She holds a Bachelors of Fine Art and a Masters of Fine Art from the Alberta College of Art and Design.
Where humans intersect with unseen natural forces, she imagines what lies behind or beneath the surface. More than seeing, she wants to feel the backstory, the understory, the glue that holds it all together. Her work seeks to bring that underlying level of awareness closer to the visible and the touchable.
The Sublime, New Materialism and the Vorticists are influences.