Tracey-Ann begins her work with an abstract expressive style and then sub-consciously connecting with figures, animals, scenery and concepts to develop the message about our connection with life and our place in it.
Currents twist a silent cry,
A drifting face goes slipping by,
Yellow breaks through stormy blue,
Feeling swims where none is true.
In Turbulent, I let the paint churn like unsettled water, blues and greys colliding with flashes of sharp yellow light. Within the motion, a face—perhaps a fish, perhaps something more human—emerges, its sadness carried by the current rather than fixed in form. I wanted that feeling of being pulled through emotion, where clarity flickers but never settles. It is a portrait of inner weather, where turbulence reveals what is usually hidden beneath the surface.
