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About Kris MacKenzie

Kris’s art is conveying notions of universal connectivity; symbolically.  Humans, animals, and the landscape collude in benevolent lucidity concerning profound interconnected ecological realities. This is because Kris believes that paintings like life, are not just on the surface, but are linked to another plane; one of magic where what you see is not all there is to it. Kris draws on optical meditation, to connect imagination with the transcendent; until visualisation and the hand become one.

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These paintings and drawings depict inner visions; the cliffs afford far sight nonetheless they embrace hidden dangers. Shadows, like owls’ shamanistic journeying, speak to us of these contradictory known, unknown enigmatic dimensions of being. Kris is drawn again and again to the past to discover how this element was previously represented in painting. By looking intensely, in open eye rumination, Kris is seeking this nebulous space to understand the present and perhaps something of the future. Pathways often depict the past or passages of life, choices and decisions. Pursuing connective threads, the impression of time separates.

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Working on art can be seen as following an eternal, perplexing thread which only vanishes when you stop creating, the viewer is simply asked to look and 'see' the current and imminent links.

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Kris made the decision to relocate two decades ago to live in rural Victoria, and is now nestled in the foothills of the Strathbogie Ranges.

 “I love Melbourne’s exquisite cultural life; it was where I grew up.  However increasingly I am finding that cannot truly feel alive without nature. I have a passion, deep love and strong interconnectivity with landscape, water, rocks, plants, animals; the energy of wild places.”

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So I settle on reflecting on what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to."

 

Kris Renée MacKenzie

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