My Love of Foliage, Jill (Everton Park)

To create My Love of Foliage, Jill (Everton Park), Renata Buziak uses an experimental photographic process that she developed and called the biochrome. This process fuses plant samples and photographic emulsions over a period of time, allowing organic decomposition to transform both materials into new, abstract, yet often accurately depicted, images of plants.

“I like tropical plants because I was brought up in Christchurch in New Zealand and it’s very cold over there. I like coloured vegetation leaves, I like palms. I don’t grow roses or daffodils. I like geraniums and just sort of tough plants, more foliage type plants.
“I live here by myself. It’s my little cave, my little hideaway where I can come and lose myself and do my artwork and poke around and nobody can get at me.” – Jill

My Love of Foliage, Jill (Everton Park features in Renata’s solo exhibition Revisiting Pine Rivers Gardens in Biochromes