Artist Statement
Nic Everist
It’s About The Journey
Nic Everist is a landscape artist based in Barwon Heads. Her work documents her lived experience through the medium of acrylic paintings, connecting her inner world with her outside surroundings. This collection ‘It’s About The Journey’ honors the lesson that the journey is more valuable than the destination. After a couple of challenging years navigating the constant pull between motherhood and artist, following a serious car accident the previous year, Nic has heightened appreciation for the day to day aspects of life, and uses this as a persistent redirection from the temptation of focusing on a final goal.
Each piece in this collection captures a fleeting moment while traveling across Australia, captured initially by a photograph and then celebrated through this series. Nic is forever pausing her travels to record forgotten landscapes along the journey to the final destination. This series aims to celebrate these moments as a reminder that there is no sense in rushing through life striving for the final goal when there is so much to experience along the journey that is arguably more influential and rewarding than the final destination.
Nic’s technique of pouring paint onto canvas creates organic marks that replicate the organic formations in nature itself. This element of abstract mark making combined with detailed brushstrokes lending to realism are defining features of her work.
We would like to acknowledge the Wathaurong people of the Kulin Nations as the Traditional Owners of the land that this work was created upon and the Tradition Owners of the lands that inspire each piece of this series and pay our respect to Elders both past and present.