NATURAL PIGMENT
I create art with natural pigments knowing the impermanence of the cycle, many fugitive colors carry within them the potential for change, others are as solid as rocks. I connect with the artists of yesteryear and produce my own pigment. I walk along paths, picking leaves, bark, flowers and the earth.
In the next step I prepare the raw materials to become watercolor paints, lacquer pigment, acrylic, pastel chalk. I welcome mistakes and celebrate successes. I distil my own story respecting the timing of each thing. I retrieve ancestral knowledge and move on.
RETURN TO THE PATH
In 2020 I reconnected with my surroundings, looking in my own backyard for my raw materials, my inspirations. I planted flowers and extracted the pigment from them, from the trees that were already there, I removed the sap for the binder. At the back of the studio I rescued the lands harvested in a time of hope and became an alchemist.
© 2021 by Walkyria Novais