FREA BUCKLER

Shifts and Variations

Frea is a fine artist who paints with print. Her work is sequential where one piece ‘organically’ evolves into another. The themes are subtle, yet consistent and her use of overlapping geometric shapes reflects a love of precision but also the challenge of the abstract.

Frea was inspired initially by her parents and by the work of Ben Nicholson. In my opinion, her work is extremely personal but tries not to be. She plays with colour and she too uses digital means to produce silkscreen outcomes - Photoshop layered imagery transferred onto film positives. 

Other inspirations include: Louise Bourgeois, Agnes Martin and Carmen Herrera (who is still making work at 101 years of age.)

Frea has a refined colour palette when producing work but has no idea of the final outcome. Therefore it is ok to follow your intuition and gives a sense of freedom to the work. She uses ‘Instagram’ as a recording and reminding tool – rather like a sketchbook. It saves time in a busy life and snippets of information can be collected and saved at the click of a button.  Her geometric print editions relate to daily processes of her life and the processes and emotions generated when ‘making’ work.

I was inspired by the heartfelt and impassioned way Frea discussed her work and her own inspirations. She was humble yet fervent and gave us an insight into how emotive a subject her work is for her and how generous of spirit and advice she is. Nothing is certain but she is attempting to ‘make the ordinary extraordinary’ and that is what all creatives strive for I think. What a pleasure to see her in action.

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