AHNI KRUGER

FERTILE CHAOS

 

The exuberance of nature calls to me, and I endeavor to reflect both its eternal and ephemeral qualities in my imagery. Being in the landscape and painting my reaction to it is where I am truly the happiest. I am interested in capturing that sense of connection to greater forces at work. Change is a constant source for investigation and repetitive patterns help to anchor its experience. Most of my work includes a delicately complex structure or pattern that is disrupted in some way to evoke a sense of uncertainty and fragmentation.

 

Seeking to portray the visual space between dream, observation, and memory, my process incorporates a fair amount of serendipity as I respond to my immediate environment. I have been developing different bodies of work concurrently: perceptual studies of naturally occurring forms, and geometric abstractions derived from a specific pattern found in a fresco at Padua. These divergent approaches are beginning to merge at last.