Oceans Apart No.20 (thin ice skating)
oil on canvas
90x90cm

Oceans Apart #23 (hotel lobby/not Miami)
oil on canvas 90x90cm
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Oceans Apart #25 (ooh la la)
oil on canvas
90x90cm

Oceans Apart #24 (hot sand car feet)
oil on canvas
90x90cm

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Oceans Apart #21 (everyday I rewrite the book)
oil on canvas
90x90cm

Oceans Apart 2022

Studio paintings 2021

Oceans Apart 2nd series

‘Civilisation can’t exist without a sense of play’: Nan Collantine’s works resonate with this beguiling statement by renowned anthropologist Claud Levi-Strauss. The lyrical fabric of her works is made up of rhythmic elements: containment, layer, overlap. Soft squares of colour chime. A take on the abstract tradition instigated by Piet Mondrian. They evoke a plural vision: as if there are many windows, many openings. Looking at her works gives the sense of being offered a way through. The works tend to have a formal title, accompanied by a second title in brackets that is subjective and more lighthearted.

Nan describes her work as ‘a story of process’. The process of harnessing and soothing a bustling multitude of colours and shapes. The initial title refers to the ocean: the origin of story-telling and the epitome of harmony and strife. The abstract elements that make up the painting could be like an archipelago, unified by the sea that surrounds them: ‘After a long time lost at sea I find my island’ the painter says of her process.

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