RADAR
Artist Statement
Odette Nicholson
RADAR I & II & III series
Hot Air Balloon offers a ‘bird’s eye view’ direct look down, a tipping- over nearness to the Earth and show prairie cultivated fields of patterns and patchwork around natural topography. The evening sun shadows insisting on lush texture and variegated surface - a voluptuous sculpture. The heaviness and depth of forms are solid under a streaming electric sensory transmission, of air currents and of the stops and starts of wing beats; energy systems, radiated information - mineral, magnet, migrate, memory; ancient pathways, repetition over millennium, the instinctual knowing or sensing of safe passage.
*RADAR 1 painting series is acrylic on stretched canvas (unframed) various sizes 8x10 inches to 4x5 feet. 18 paintings
The paint imitates elements; a controlled striping of brilliant colours; stops and starts in transmission shadow images project a feeling of the ground and underneath it. Reflected light, heat or cool sensations coming up off the earth’s surface and navigation.
*RADAR II watercolour series on cotton rag paper (unframed) average width 10 to 14 inches.
The center of gravity – the Sun; Converts to earth energy. Vibrations, reflected light and of wing beats. Life. Continuance.
*RADAR III acrylic on stretched canvas (unframed) 18x18inches each.
Loose abstractions of symbolized elements within the RADAR theme with light surface paint treatment. Set of Eight paintings. Under paintings for RADAR 8.
RADAR 8 series 2009
RADAR 8 painted in 2009 is the final installment to RADAR series brings forward the power of perspective and horizon line, of what’s on view to the human eye. Each Radar 8 painting is underlined and under-painted by RADAR III sketches.
