Loane

Loane makes work with spirit, energy, and joy, despite the significant challenges she faces as a blind person. Since starting at Artbox she has experimented with a range of approaches to image making, investigating different mediums – pastel, paint, charcoal – textures, colours, collage, and even a recent foray into drawing on three dimensional objects. 

As a blind person, she draws on her visual memories for inspiration, as well as her drive to explore colour to create stunning abstract pieces. She works closely with Bobbi, an Artbox artist and volunteer, who helps set up the studio space and supports her with picking her colours. She builds images over long periods of time, overlapping layers of rhythmic, repetitive marks, using blu-tac attached to the surface to guide her hand and as an aid to composition. Often collaged elements are pasted into the image, adding to the visual noise and sense of chance.

Loane is also a musical artist - a singer, performer and recording artist.

Original art:

Loane in the studio: