Working at R.A.R.O, I will immerse myself in the local community, producing paintings and prints that are symbiotic with the Spanish climate and society. In light of coronavirus, I would present paintings/prints in an exhibition at the end of my residency alongside domestic potted plants and botany. This reflects our recently more constrained experience of flora as we appreciate flowers and plants within our own homes as opposed to in an expansive setting. During lockdown, garden centres across Europe have had to dispose of millions of plants, highlighting a limited botanical experience and appreciation through the equivalent of flowers we see in terms of still life, textiles, wallpaper, china/domesticated plants.

 

The structure and fabric-like quality to botany lends itself particularly well to the visual components considered through printing. I therefore plan to utilise R.A.R.O’s printing workshops available at studios: ‘Contorno Urbano’, ‘Espai Souvenir’, and ‘Print Workers Barcelona’. By exploring various printing methods such as mono, lino and screen-print, I will emphasise the biodiversity and sensuality of flora. Working on a specifically minimalist, commercialised depiction of botany, I hope to produce works that could be printed onto textiles, clothing, posters, mugs, and other sellable items/accessories which could then be sold at Mercat De Sant Antoni, a Catalonian market