Siân Lysaght
I am a British artist who lives and works in the Netherlands. I am an IBDP Visual Art teacher but I do not see my own art practice as a separate occupation. Integral to my work with students is the sharing of ideas; development of themes and artistic intentions. In this way, we work together, each exploring within a culture and community of artists. Brian Eno captured the notion so well in the coining of the word 'scenius'. In contrast to the idea of a single genius, together we are much more interesting!
My work has largely been rooted in my connection to the physical world. Initially trained as a fine art sculptor, the experience of 'sensing' the world underpins all my artistic interests now in painting, print and drawing. The visceral relationship between body and landscape generates a lasting, resonant context for my explorations. I seek to try to transcend illustration in order to evolve the capturing of the unseen; the felt, experienced, the dreamt. I am inspired to find a poetic, visual language that attempts to render those often fleeting, transient, ephemeral moments to speak, in contrast, of the monumental or elemental. I am drawn to and into water and its ability to reflect, suspend and render weightless. I combine this with fragments of memory, from childhood and beyond to bring light to the hidden, to make tangible that which sits in the spaces between things, to explore that 'What is seen, what is guessed, what is imagined'. (Klodin Orb 2023)
Art is a sanctuary, a place of pause and reflection and rhizome like, all artwork I make are interconnected. It reveals a lot to me about myself. I like to be playful and I have learnt to trust my intuition. For students and myself it is a place to wrestle with the world as well as to connect.
My work has largely been rooted in my connection to the physical world. Initially trained as a fine art sculptor, the experience of 'sensing' the world underpins all my artistic interests now in painting, print and drawing. The visceral relationship between body and landscape generates a lasting, resonant context for my explorations. I seek to try to transcend illustration in order to evolve the capturing of the unseen; the felt, experienced, the dreamt. I am inspired to find a poetic, visual language that attempts to render those often fleeting, transient, ephemeral moments to speak, in contrast, of the monumental or elemental. I am drawn to and into water and its ability to reflect, suspend and render weightless. I combine this with fragments of memory, from childhood and beyond to bring light to the hidden, to make tangible that which sits in the spaces between things, to explore that 'What is seen, what is guessed, what is imagined'. (Klodin Orb 2023)
Art is a sanctuary, a place of pause and reflection and rhizome like, all artwork I make are interconnected. It reveals a lot to me about myself. I like to be playful and I have learnt to trust my intuition. For students and myself it is a place to wrestle with the world as well as to connect.
