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Maraika Taylor Clairfayt
Wanagarren Ash
Charcoal
Coming from a drawing background and dabbling in expressive abstract paintings for the past 20 years, I turned back to my love of drawing and starting experimenting with charcoal around 6 years ago. I am drawn to the atmospheric magic that tonal work provides. This piece is referenced from a photograph I took in WA last year after a fire had ripped through the Wanagarren National Park. The starkness of the mountains of ash and sticks was something that I had never seen before in a landscape, and I believe is striking. Truly this piece is a charcoal of charcoal.
Size: 95 × 85 cm
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About Maraika Taylor Clairfayt
Maraika is a Gold Coast artist that is drawn to the atmospheric magic that tonal work provides. The viewer is invited to get lost in simplicity and be captured by mood and motion. For the last six years she has been creating pieces in charcoal and loving the complexity it can deliver by just a slight erase or smudge. Her work was Highly Commended in The Doyle’s 2024 and was part of the GC Triennial 2024-2025 exhibited at HOTA.
