Toni Losey // Finding Now

My current work is a response to my unending interest in the smallest of details found in nature.  I am inspired by the growth patterns of flora.  They provide us with a visual representation of the transformations that occur throughout various lifecycles. There is such beauty that can emerge from the complexity of both living and dying.  

In this series, I reference these influences through the development of deeply textural, colourful, and complex clay works paying particular attention to light and shadow.  The endless possibility of patterns and configurations I find exhilarating as they materialize through various stages of construction, deconstruction, and finish. By exemplifying the mass confusion of root balls, stems, and leaves, I am able to connect them to form purpose and direction, culminating in blooms at various stages of growth.

These works are captured in a state of possibility, a place of beginnings and endings.  The path to now is rarely linear, but it is directional.  There is a pattern to the twists and turns that make up life.  Amidst the unexpected, the definite, and the planned, growth and loss create life.
- Toni Losey -