Garden of Time by Ella Wijt is a body of work comprising of modified found objects, mixed media sculptures, and oil paintings. Developed over the span of three years, Garden of Time reflects her engagement with the garden as a metaphor for the harvesting and blossoming of personal growth, imagination, intimacy, and transformation.

Drawing on her own personal relationships and conversations with friends and family, Ella Wijt has cultivated a deeply introspective yet universal language via her paintings. Rather than aiming for ‘completion’ in her artworks, Ella Wijt treats each work as a seed planted in, what she calls, her ‘soul garden,’ referring to her continual process of reflecting and becoming.

Ella Wijt’s use of brass is both a nod to its historic role in religious contexts and also an embodiment to her personal relationship to craftsmanship and spiritual practices. Her brass frames echo the sacredness of reliquaries found on church altars.

Together, the works in Ella Wijt’s Garden of Time form a wandering and contemplative landscape.


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