ABOUT PHOEBE
Phoebe Ryrko is an Edinburgh based artist, whose work explores the healing power of colour. It is a both personal journey towards wholeness and an invitation to enjoy a moment of stillness. She was brought up in a Catholic spiritual community called Lothlorien, which was dedicated to helping people in crisis or breakdown. As a child she took refuge in nature and in flowers, collecting them from the garden, laying the table with a cloth she arranged sweet peas, lupins, daffodils, roses or lilac in vases according to the seasons. Her preoccupation is with the mysterious energetic exchange between objects, non-sentient beings and humans. The transient and ungraspable fullness that we experience each day in our ordinary lives, that includes both grief and elation. The blooms that arise with their triumphant beauty always slowly and beautifully wilt over time. Through the 'controlled folly' that is making paintings, the magical properties of colour and the embodied movement of the brush, the interplay of joy and sadness are integrated. The work is a contemplation and a dialogue, whose are the eyes that sees the beauty, what makes the flowers bloom?. The gestures she makes are a tender caress a loving communication with death, she lays the paint down as a surrender to the material world at an altar to the spiritual.
