Phillipa Atkinson (b. 1994) is an Australian plein-air painter based in Amsterdam. She works in surrender to the elements, forging a relationship with the present moment. Her sun-rendered satin scenes are backdrops to longing: for role, for place, for sanctuary.
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PHILLIPA ATKINSON
To hatch delightful hopes
110x140x4,5
UV-sensitive ink on Duchess satin
A mirror, window, or portal adorned with fairytale tendrils. The promise of brighter days propels the story forward. The chapter is, as yet, unnamed.
Regarded, utterly in vain
130x180x4,5
UV-sensitive ink & chalk pastel on Duchess satin
A purging of confessional text guides chalk pastel as if engraving an heirloom. Placeholders for portraits are warmed by an inner fire. Although the scene is still unfolding, it is lovingly tended to.
This crowning bitterness
230x130x4,5cm
UV-sensitive ink on Duchess satin
A fan, crown, or sunrise opens in anticipation. Memorised botanical gestures guide the journey in. Over time, immaterial backdrops to the artist’s fantasies arrange into familiar forms.
Untrained vine
40x44x4,5cm
UV-senstive ink on Duchess satin
Made just after a trip to Australia: an attempt to prolong incredible, passion fruit sunsets. In our familiar Iluka, uneventful days are bookended by the sun’s panoramic theatre.
Half-inclined to fancy
180x130x4,5
UV-senstive ink on Duchess satin
The viewer is small in this make-believe scene, though entirely safe. Their welcome gift is a tangle of petals and ribbons.
Kinsman of indifference
300x100x4,5cm
UV-senstive ink on Duchess satin
A taught satin “U” holds the contents of the painting like cradled arms. Heady inked gesture tangles around a botanical motif, signalling disruption.
I will ease my heart
100x105x4,5cm
UV-senstive ink on Duchess satin
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An inverted “U” shape borrows its proportions from a hearth. Magnetic in its symbology—transformation, rebirth—the fireplace poses an invitition to crawl inside, accross a threshhold.
In the hollow bank
40x55x4,5cm
UV-senstive ink, charcoal & chalk pastel on Duchess satin
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Chalk markings ramble over a window frame like ivy. Words are applied gesturally, beginning with “And forging together...” before descending into illegible muscle memory.
Thieves of the days beauty
55x55x4,5cm
UV-senstive ink on Duchess satin
An atmosphere so delicate it could blow away in the wind. Here, a spiderweb is tethered to woody botanicals like glass in lead.
Hours were cups
130x165x4,5cm
UV-senstive ink on Duchess satin
Measuring precisely the artist’s height, an archway invites entry to a place of memory and sanctuary. A perfect fit, available always.
Holy Fields
80x55x4,5cm
UV-senstive ink, charcoal, oil stick & chalk pastel on Duchess satin
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The artist’s initials, P.A., serve to anchor a journey in. One of the first demarcations of identity given to us as children. Scrawled in permanent marker on the corner of a tempera finger painting, the name marks the end of fantasy, a return to the real-world.
Tuesday Morning
40x55x4,5cm
UV-senstive ink on Duchess satin
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The window: a delicate veil between interior and exterior, here and there. Faint colour application suggests that this frame is a temporary apparition.
Yesternight
40x55x4,5cm
UV-senstive ink, charcoal & chalk pastel on Duchess satin
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Ecstatic charcoal gestures conjure information from a faint, umber scene. The text below, reading “matriarch in waiting” speaks to a state of becoming, of biding time.
Night-tripping
40x55x4,5cm
UV-senstive ink, charcoal & chalk pastel on Duchess satin
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A composition of undergrowth—a dense, sheltered hideaway. Drawn to accommodate the scale of a small creature, at home in an ever-changing landscape.
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