Cheryl Cook
Working with Place, Nature & Natural Inks in Gippsland
My practice is shaped through sustained attention to place, material and relationship, where each artwork becomes part of an ongoing conversation with the landscape rather than simply a representation of it.
I create artworks using naturally derived inks and earth pigments gathered from the places in which I live and work.
Quiet Architecture of Belonging
Scent Bark inks, earth pigments and textiles on canvas.
This work has remained in the studio for several months. Each time I pass it, I notice the relationships within it and sometimes notice new ones. They continue to delight me.
…The inks I make carry the colours of a particular landscape, but more importantly they carry the quality of attention that brought them into being….
Except from Essay One - Attention
Next Workshop: October 4th, 10th & 11th (Series 3)
What if this workshop is not actually about making art?
What if the real challenge is that most of us no longer know how to belong to a place deeply enough to notice it?
This series is not simply a creative workshop of 3 days. It is an invitation to unlearn speed, certainty and surface-level seeing. Rather than approaching the landscape as scenery, resource or backdrop, we begin by asking how a place might change us if we paid proper attention to it.