Rendered with a luminous application of colour, Angela Heisch’s paintings are composed of repeated motifs, curving forms, and delicate dark lines. Drawing inspiration from organic bodies, patterns in nature, and architecture, the artist’s abstract language seeks to capture the sensation of her observations. Heisch’s enigmatic forms encounter one another on the canvas, creating tension or waves of energy though interlocking or obstructive relationships.
Each work is characterised by a sense of movement, a fluidity reflected in the opposing properties that coexist on the canvas – hard and soft, light and dark, flatness and depth. Presenting her paintings as psychological spaces, Heisch seeks an active relationship with the viewer, provoking playful engagement through association and familiar forms. In tandem with her painting practice, is the artist’s pastel work on paper that form the foundation of her compositions. Within these works, Heisch plays out nascent ideas, allowing intuition to supersede preparation and colour, whose emotive qualities can be a distraction, to surrender itself to mystery.