Jenny Mehrtens - Elemental - Lupins and Daisies<br/><br/>

My memories of growing up are of spending hours and hours outside - playing, exploring, finding, collecting.

We spent long summers and many weekends at our family “Camp” in a remote clearing in a Beech Forest near Waikaia, in Southland – it was elemental.

The forest, bush and the creek were our natural playground.

As a child I was fascinated with the patterns created above ground with leaf forms, trees branching and rivers braiding. Anastomosis.

If there is a message in the work it is to get outside in natural surroundings and for your well-being, be absorbed in it.