Brenda Nyhof

I was working with highly patterned paintings around 2019-2023, taking the ideas gained from the pencil from around that time further. I was working in paper mache and clays at the time also. These paintings are on board and painted in acrylic with pencil.

 I love painting and drawing and keep coming back to it, exploring ideas through colour, pattern and suggestion.

I tend to jump back and forth between 2D and 3D works, often working on both simultaneously.

This gallery shows some examples of ideas I have chased over the years. I tend to work through an idea in a medium then with a wee bit of an overlap, make a sudden jump into a new idea. It’s a little chaotic, but pretty much the last 10 years in summary.

I was focusing on pencil around 2014-16. My pencil works, like my sculptures begin as a broad idea and include the freedom of exploring where the work takes me. These works are more like elaborate doodles, exploring mythological themes, nature and stories.

Faces started to pop up in my work as I developed an interest in the subject and an interest in a more defined subject. I am still coming back to these ideas at the same time as my sculptural work.