Pike explores how new combinations of multi-sensory triggers within a complicated painting intensify mesmerizing emotion. This project created multiple sensations that magnify dramatic environmental crisis.
Chill
Languorous swimming under Arctic ice provides hope for safe comfortable harbour.
The Reflective
Mammatus storm clouds predict passionate cataclysmic weather.
The Deluge
Torrents of discarded knitwear flow downhill relentlessly, like molten lava.
gouache on paper, 2.4 m x 6.1 m (8 x 20 ft), 2005
Lunacy
Sea anemones morph with submerged sweaters to, eventually, breed woollen cephalopods.
Photographer: Robert Barrow
Bev Pike 