Jane Hylton
Works featured in Solastalgia: South Coast Regional Art Centre, Goolwa 2018
Alexandrina Night
fresh water mussel shells, paint 2018
“The natural world and mankind's fraught relationship with it has been the focus of my painting, drawing and assemblages for several years. Generally I select subjects from my immediate riverine environment, and my assemblages often combine found objects with drawn and painted imagery. In this work I have chosen to paint directly onto fresh water mussel shells with imagery representing the grasses, sedges, rushes and other flora from the wetlands of this low lying area. Fresh water mussels died in their thousands during the millennium drought which devastated this area, and have not yet returned to anywhere near the abundant numbers in which they previously existed.”
Jane Hylton
Image: Jo Wilmot
Essay written by Jane Hylton entitled, ‘Solastalgia: A Water Story’:
“There are lessons to be learnt from water, nature’s gift to humanity, which can teach us how to live in harmony with the earth and in peace with one another. In Africa, they say, “We don’t go to the water ponds merely to capture water, but because friends and dreams are there to meet us”.