Gabbi Lancaster
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J A D E
Arborescence 91 x 122cm SOLD Available as a limited edition (12) fine art print
Jade II 91x91cm $2200
Jade 91x91cm SOLD Available as a limited edition (12) fine art print
Luminescence 112x112cm SOLD
Sanctuary 101x101cm SOLD Available as a limited edition (12) fine art print
Encantada 112 x 152cm SOLD
Luz de la luna 112x112cm $2500 Available as a limited edition (12) fine art print
Equanimity 101 x 101cm SOLD Available as a limited edition (12) fine art print
Reverie 60x60cm SOLD
Release 20 x25cm SOLD
Illuminate 122 x 91cm $1800
Whiting Bay 101 x 183cm SOLD
Innocence 60x60cm SOLD Available as a limited edition (12) fine art print
Rise 60x60cm SOLD
Sparrow 30x30cm $500 Available as a limited edition (12) fine art print
Magpie Lark 30x30cm $600
Fig Tree Bird 30x30cm $600 Available as a limited edition (12) fine art print
Fairy Wren 20x20cm SOLD Available as a limited edition (12) fine art print
Rise II 60x60cm SOLD Available as a limited edition (12) fine art print
Kooki 60x60cm Original is SOLD Available as a limited edition (12) fine art print
Kookaburra 30x30cm SOLD Available as a limited edition (12) fine art print

EXHIBITION STATEMENT
This year after learning about the light rail project and the unnecessary destruction of our environment; I felt devastated and compelled to spend time with the endangered trees, painting a body of work highlighting the magnificence, beauty and vulnerability of trees and the birds that live in them. I developed a strong connection with the Moreton Bay fig trees on Anzac Parade and in Randwick. I witnessed the midnight chainsaw massacres: and as a consequence, my art practice was transformed into an expression of peaceful activism.

Initially, my practice involved drawing the trees with ink, charcoal and painting on site. I sat quietly with the trees and used these processes of rendering to become fully present, connected and responsive to the trees as complex life forms and sentient beings. I felt their love and majesty pour over me, protecting me, giving me strength and inspiring me to express their forms. The heightened emotions I felt while watching their destruction were channeled into the painting process with the intention of communicating awe and wonder.

The forms of the fig trees, leaves, trunks and torsos, are reminiscent of the human form. The figures within my artworks are entwined with nature, representing oneness and unity. I enjoy working with no fixed outcome in mind, creating interplay between opaque and translucent layers to reveal and conceal the mysteries of what lies beneath. The imagery emerges and fades in an emotional play until the work resolves itself.


My experiences of connection and love for such venerable, indiscriminately generous, equanimous and glorious giants leads me to continue contemplating, painting, learning, appreciating and honouring the trees.

Sitting in the shade
under the canopy of a majestic Fig Tree
and observing, drawing, painting.
Tracing her lines with a sensitive touch

I feel calmed, at peace and protected....
enchanted.
She shelters me,
shows me more than I had seen before.
Love blooms and deep gratitude for her untold gifts grow in me,
tainted with sorrow at knowing her imminent brutal future.


FINE ART GICLÉE PRINTS
Selected works are available in a limited edition of 12 signed prints on 100% cotton rag paper
with archival grade pigments. Printed by Fine Art Imaging. 
To view and order prints link here
30x30cm - $120
60x60cm - $270
90x90cm - $580
  ©Gabbi Lancaster 2018                                                                                                                                                                                                                
  • Home
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    • Other Art Fair 2022
    • beyond the surface
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    • T R A C E S 2017
    • J A D E 2016
    • ELEMENTAL 2015
    • AVAILABLE WORKS
    • Fine Art Prints
    • Dance Improvisation drawings
    • 2014/15 collection
    • totem series 2014/15
    • 2012/13 collection
    • earlier work
    • pregnancy art
  • Art of Flow Community
    • Register
    • Art of Flow at home
  • Workshops
    • The Art of Flow • 6 week series
    • All Day • Art of Flow
    • Children's Art
    • Drawing Events
    • materials list
    • feedback
  • Contact