Summer's Sweetness | Chantal de Kock

Chantal is an Australian artist who grew up in many outback country towns throughout Australia in an era where outdoor play was the mode of life.

She now calls the Gippsland region, with it's beautiful natural landscapes home.

Chantal is interested in how we live on the earth in a way that reduces our impact and cares about this in both her work practices and the way she lives.

Chantal often uses natural ochres and pigments that are native to the places that hold deep meaning for her.

Chantal believes we are of nature and as such should work to live in harmony with it. In it and of it rather than trying to control it.

By using loose gestural marks she hopes to convey this sense of letting go of control and allowing ourselves to be within the cycles and imperfect systems of nature.

Chantal's response portrays the importance of the lanscape in our physical and inner lives.

Rather than reproducing specific scenes, she seeks to convey the sense of being in the landscape, thereby engaging memory and imagination.

Her work is somewhere in-between figuration and abstraction, between what we see and what we feel.

"Sweet summer sunshine and a chance to slow down.”

“Summer holidays that allow us to step outside of our routines and feel the pull of nature.”

“The walking tracks are lined with large rock shelves that hug the coastline. Their solid foundations deep within the earth.”

We walk along the coastal track and see glimpses of the ocean. Banksias, tea trees and flannel flowers fill the landscape.”

“Lizards dart across the path and we make our way down to the inlet.”

“We float in the cool blue waters and gaze up at the sky."

Chantal de Kock, 2024.

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