Those darker days | Jocelyn Friis

This piece sums up my past creative year, filled with risk taking, vulnerability, bravery, battling the doubts but taking the step anyway. It is a reminder to take the leap at opportunities that come our way!

Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas, ready to hang

Dimensions: h610mm x w610mm

Signature: yes

Artist Bio

Jocelyn Friis is a New Zealand-based painter creating semi-abstract land and seascapes from her coastal studio in Mangawhai. Working in acrylic and encaustic, she explores the tension between nature’s resilience and vulnerability, and our relationship to it. Originally from Cape Town, South Africa, Jocelyn draws on her Steiner education and deep connection with nature to inform her art. A four time award-winning artist and CreativeNZ grant recipient, she has exhibited widely across New Zealand and more recently the UK. Jocelyn is also a qualified facilitator for Art & Creativity for Healing.