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Artist Statement
Caitlin Rigby’s paintings navigate environments of intuitive, abstract landscapes, guided by the power of gesture and the poetry of form. Her work unfolds as contemplative windows into atmosphere and memory, built through layered surfaces that suggest place without defining it. Working within a limited palette of blues, Rigby develops a visual language through overlapping brushstrokes and layered washes. Attuned to the surface beneath her paint, she remains consciously engaged with its warmth and material presence, which quietly enrich her palette and forms. Rigby’s compositions become reflective, meditative spaces—open to interpretation, echoing currents of melancholy and textures of longing.
Theme: BLUE
Blue operates as both subject and material in my paintings. It is not only the palette I work with but also the emotional terrain I inhabit within my imagery. Its associations with water, sky, and emotional depth place the work in a liminal space—between the physical and the psychological, between place and dream. Within this space, horizons and tides emerge, offering calm and safety while retaining an undercurrent of melancholy and grief. Layered blues create emotional texture—diluted and translucent in some areas, dense and saturated in others—as if feeling has been reflected in the surface, carrying the quiet beauty of nature and the deepening of memory.
— Caitlin Rigby, Coburg North, Victoria
