Sting acrylic on Canvas 80 x 120 cm

Whiter Continuum , 2021 Acrylic on Canvas 160 x 140 cm

Changing Patterns 15 2021, Acrylic on Paper 35 x 55 cm

It Pours and Rains 2020 Acrylic on Paper 75 x 100 cm

Between 2019 and 2020 I I was with my elderly parents who live in another part of the country to me. A lot of their discussions centred on the weather. Over their combined time on this earth of 182 years, they have experienced many seasons, their cycles and patterns.  My mother protests, ‘it’s not meant to be so hot now … where is the calendar?’ doubting the correctness of her memory. But somewhere in my mother’s accumulating monologues of protest she tells of something much bigger, the changes in climate through a bodily rhythm of lived memory. I started to record these weather talks as repeated paint layers on paper in response. 

Multiples of paperworks

Like a record or meditation on all the weathers within us, Penny Coss pours and pours colour onto paper - a repetitious process that echoes repeated conversations with her mother about the weather. Like the body’s rhythmic memory, the symbolic logic of the venn diagram-like paintings, of overlapping circles and other shapes, highlights how things are similar and different.

Iso Coil 2021, Acrylic on Canvas 75 x 55 cm

Rain Burn 2021 acrylic on paper 35 x 55 cm