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Puy Soden

Puy Soden builds large scale, time-bound, painting installations on specific sites in the landscape. Puy’s approach to building these temporary structures is experimental and process focused. There is never a set outcome, and the video/photo documentation of the experimental interaction with the material becomes the artwork.

Puy chooses specific materials according to their physical properties, availability, affordability and alignment with her sustainability values. She selects specific rural locations according to their accessibility, geology, view and sun position. By creating these outdoor installations, she advocates:

- improvised, intuitive art-making that focuses on the activity rather than the outcome;

- connection with and respect for the landscape;

- temporary artworks that leave nothing behind;

- accessible ways of making art with affordable materials and processes;

- a multidimensional approach to painting with the artist’s interaction with the materials as central.

As an artist educator, Puy is an ambassador for process focused art-making. She helps people to discover the creative freedom and potential that comes from developing an experimental, open-ended approach. Puy feels privileged to witness the growth in people’s confidence to explore their creativity once they’ve experienced a shift from product to process. Enabling this shift is her teaching speciality.

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