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Dawn Wood
Dawn Wood has a background in science education, her work gradually becoming interdisciplinary. She gained her doctorate in 2008, her research incorporating both science and poetry and conducted at the Centre for the Study of Natural Design which was then based at Dundee Contemporary Arts. She is currently a part-time tutor in Postgraduate Medical Education, and a hypnotherapist.
She has exhibited widely in galleries and public spaces including Abertay University, DCA Printmaking shows, 2010-2016; Perthshire Open Studios 2014 – 2021, WASPS studios Dundee, St Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral Dundee, (Lenten Reredos painting) as well as tutoring painting for Carse Association for Continuing Education (2014- 2019). Dawn has been a member of Dundee Ceramics Workshop since 2018. She is currently working on a set of ‘Stations of the Cross’ in ceramic, commissioned by St Paul’s Cathedral, Dundee.
Artist’s Statement
I am fascinated by the process of working through the unknown towards creative resolution, and in the dynamic relationship between wholes and parts. It is a poetic quest. In painting, I start each work with drips, splashes and areas of colour (often brush cleanings from previous paintings). I use canvas folded and collaged unto the support to create possibilities. Then I’ll work through stages which come and go; potential motifs arrive and dissipate, until an essential node (the organising idea) suggests itself. Gradually the elements that the whole depend upon seem to arrange themselves. In this way the act of making seems to be a dialogue between the artist and the artwork, and also between the wholes and the parts.
The act of painting will add to my store of tacit, intuitive knowledge about shape colour, energy, wholeness, necessity.
In painting, I have a range of favoured subjects. I first painted butterflies after seeing scores of red admirals enjoying a bank of Michaelmas daisies at the Howff in Dundee, in Sept 2014. The Michaelmas daisies are no longer there, nor do the butterflies return to that spot.
Butterfly Path
oil on canvas
40cm x 40cm
£480
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Magnolia Tree
oil on canvas
70cm x 60cm
£1,250
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Butterflies and Pheasant's Eyes
oil on canvas
50cm x 50cm
£750
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Year of Red Admirals
oil on canvas
80cm x 60cm
£1,400
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