2024 Muswellbrook Art Prize

The Mountains Await Your Return

Belem Lett

The Mountains Await Your Return, 2023 oil, gesso, marble dust on aluminium composite panel 150 x 122 cm

My work plays with light and colour as inseparably the same. The act of painting is considered through the history of gestural abstraction. There is an implicit physical momentum involved in my work; the push/pull, twists, the drag of the brush, the drip, the stop and start. Individual works explore the surface and traditional constraints of the painting through, at times, bouncing off its edges and returning inwards to explore the interior space of the painting.