Throughout Vanessa’s artwork she allows the female figure to blossom, to
transform, to shine within the darkness or floating in a sea of flowers. She
shows how beauty and strength can be present in the most delicate forms.
In the red and green artworks, Vanessa manipulates these complementary
colours to illuminate the darkness. The green represents the physical part and
the red is the metaphysical and Vanessa tries to digitally paint what is fleeting
and ephemeral, be it a glow, a vibe or thoughts and wings, in order to try
describe what is not really there and what can just be imagined or felt.
Vanessa’s images are transformative and evanescent; describing the
innermost emotions that feel like the flicker of ember in the darkness of night,
they dance in beautiful tones of red and then are gone.
They speak of life, the cycle of life and the eclipsing of time and the
appearance and then disappearance of delicate objects….either way, always
that moment before metamorphosing or blossoming.
She expresses hopes and dreams, time standing still and thoughts spiralling
round and round, of visions and reflections dancing in circles and then
dissolving into nothingness, into the darkness where they came from. They are
magical, beautiful and only half of this world. Blossoms in the night.