Tactile

Residing in Rotorua and inspired by the geothermal landscapes of the Bay of Plenty, Amanda Norris has extended her use of acrylic on canvas with the discovery and use of Resene Sandtex Mediterranean texture finish.

With a diverse array of uses of this product already committed to canvas and hardboard, she describes herself as "still experimenting" with the potential of the product. Differing thicknesses and layers, drying temperatures and times, colour and even proportion of water thinning has enabled her to recapture physical features with the abstract use of perspective in both the micro and macro fields of view.

While Amanda's work currently sells through galleries and cafés to the local and tourist market, she also creates commissioned works for specifiers to complement their designs and add textural interest to spaces.

Artwork with an added dimension, the depth of texture.

From the Resene News – issue 2/2005

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