These drawings do not wish to place you inside Neva's world, but rather outside it and force you back to your own...
Neva Hosking is an artist who clearly takes great personal delight in the living. Taking her cues from the rich visual delights of her immediate environment, Neva’s still lifes are semi-autobiographical, displaying in their subject matter and aesthetic structure cues from her personal life.
In Neva’s work, the paper is as much the work as the marks she leaves upon it. The printed grids on the paper act as windows to both project upon and to peer at, to let the viewer peek through, and to keep them at just the right distance. Drawn from life, the artist’s painstaking methodology explores Hosking’s own collection of plants examined in an intensely detailed technique. Once framed, Neva’s works become windows into her greenhouse — an invitation into her personal world. Devoid of colour, focus is made on the line and form of the artist’s subjects to engage a sense of attention that enables the elevation of otherwise overlooked plants.
Take a walk through Neva's greenhouse.
