Katrine Lyck

My practise explores how a heightened awareness of nature has a nurturing impact on body and mind. The work is influenced by the collective experience of lockdown and a personal experience of chronic pain. The journey of healing for people with physical and mental pain has been challenged by the pandemic. As such, many people, including myself, have turned towards nature for its elaborate healing abilities. Even simply imagining nature can help rest the nerve system in challenging times. “Soothing Forms”, is a series of monoprints and photolithographs on silk, each piece focusing on nature and particular body parts. I attempt to convey a sense of rest and wellbeing by bringing together soft natural silks and the monoprinted shadows of plants on skin. The body parts are enlarged and become almost abstracted as the marks made by rollers and rags are highly visible. These works are an invitation to the viewer to meditate on these marks and imagine how this area of their own body can feel good with the sensations of a warm sun through dancing leaves and soft fabric caressing the skin.