Katherine Phillimore
Wishful thinking 2006 (detail)
oil on canvas
76.2 x 61.0 cm
Yarra Valley Grammar School, Ringwood
 
This series shows an adolescent girl from the suburbs, who I can easily relate to. I tried to capture seemingly insignificant moments with oil paint, which is a versatile and expressive medium, to show the beauty I see in the ordinary life around me. Through these works I am communicating an appreciation and observation of day-to-day life and how it oozes ‘ordinary’. I find this ordinariness is often overlooked and pushed aside. In creating this series I hope to evoke an appreciation of the ordinary things we so often encounter