Meridith Namsoo has opened her house at 211, Preston Drove for six years. Last year she had a break, and guested in someone else’s house; however she found that although she did not miss the work, the aggravation and the commitment, she did miss the buzz and the contact with people that an Open House provides.
Watercolour is Meridith’s thing. She loves its versatility, its vocabulary, and all its exciting possibilities. The canvasses developed because she wanted to extend this vocabulary further, and wanted to work larger than the weight of conventional framing and glass would allow. She wants watercolour to interact with a range of surfaces in a single piece of work, and will collage a surface to paint on. She tears edges for the paint to stain, and then creates the illusion of tears and collage, playing with reality and illusion. Sometimes she includes print in the work: collagraph or monoprint, or even fragments of giclée print and weaves them into the image so that it is hard to tell if the mark is drawn, or painted or printed or real. The idea is to parallel life and art; experience, history, and the ways in which we are changed by encounters – some things stick, others are discarded, but nothing disappears without trace.
During the Open House, Meridith will be showing prints, cards, and watercolours both on paper and on canvas.
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