REBECCA GOLDBERG

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“It is when the body deepens into something that resembles a trance, that I discover most nearly what it is to be. I have walked out of the body and into the mountain.”

Nan Shepherd, ‘The Living Mountain’ takes its inspiration from Rebecca Goldberg’s time spent immersed in mountain fynbos; her oil paintings act as layered interactions with the natural world, memory itself and the unconscious. Within these works what is known becomes unfamiliar; strange. She responds intuitively with a feeling drawing her to particular colour palettes and a force guiding her  towards gestural mark making with her paint brush. 

Washes of oils diluted become suspended where figures morph into plants, birds, Mother Earth. Winding brushstrokes flow and connectivity soars as each facet becomes a part of one another. Her oils feel violently alive, she sees this as a continuation of her body. Pooling and dripping as she stirs her painting, narratives and symbolism come to the surface. 

With her layers a hint of the depths below shines through. 

Layers hint at hidden depths below. Mirroring the mysteries of nature, the image hovers on the edge of clarity. Plants and animals have their own strange language, and in this lies their beauty and their power over the human imagination. It is this quality of the unknown that I explore in my paintings.

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