Rebecca Thorley-Fox Art

  ESTUARY TO OCEAN- PAINTING THE EDGE   ''Have you ever walked into a room and forgotten what you went in there for? Research by Psychology Professor Gabriel Radvansky from the University of Notre Dame suggests that the doorway itself is the cause of these memory lapses. "Entering or exiting through a doorway serves as an 'event boundary' in the mind, which separates episodes of activity and files them away," according to Radvansky. In other words, your brain files away the thoughts you had in one room in preparation for a new locale and new information. 'I think we artists can be misled by edges in a similar way. Just as a doorway can trigger an event boundary for information retrieval, too many hard edges prevent us from visually exploring the possibilities of transition and unity. When we paint outlines and hard edges we are creating barriers which are often difficult to overcome. This "stop and start" approach to painting makes

  Summer time mural developed from observations through June and July 2015. I regularly visited the Domen Las hide through summer, this hide is a favourite among visitors as you never know what's going to come up and down the estuary. The hide looks out at the last big bend in the estuary before it passes between expansive bog on the south side and the foothills of Snowdonia nation park on the other towards the sea. The light has been beautifully clear a number of times with bright blue skies reflecting in the still waters below. I was able to get out on the estuary bank and onto the grassy wall that juts out into the water which was such a different experience to the confines of the hide. I had some amazing close up sights- a stoat wove in and out of the folding over hanging edges of the grassy bog, they are so tiny! Goosanders would swim by with lots of backwards glances as I would be goggling back at it- a favourite bird of mine! It was necessary to spend some time 'in m

FUNDED BY THE ARTS COUNCIL WALES. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECT ARIENNIR GAN GYNGOR CELFYDDYDAU CYMRU. PROSIECT YMCHWIL A DATBLYGIAD Ynys Hir RSPB reserve is situated along the Dyfi estuary in the heart of mid-west Wales’s Dyfi biosphere, a landscape teeming with life and breath taking views that are everyday transformed by changing light, weather and tide, a speciality of being close to sea! I watched the hills rapidly turn green during Spring after a very wintery landscape of rusty oranges, purple-reds and warm browns.The light and colours through April are just spectacular, this is my favourite time of the year. The Dyfi valley, still with its dry reed beds and bare branches, creates a soft back drop of subdued ochres and earth colours setting off  the luscious green vibrant buds of new life. The light is perfect too, with the sun not too high in the sky yet. Journal entries scribbled down during days spent exploring the reserve and spying on wildlife... Feb-March