SPOTLIGHT: AUTUMN 2025: a biannual online series

Eastwood Fine Art: Organic forms, such as plants and feathers, are central to your work, which has progressed from delicately composed cyanotype prints to the bold paintings we see now that marry abstracted colour and form. Can you tell us about changing your approach? 

Henrietta Molinaro: Yes, I spent many years making cyanotypes. Inspired by nature and organic forms. I wanted to celebrate their natural beauty, exploring composition and detail. Stripping these forms of their colour (cyanotypes are monochromatic blue) and focusing on their delicate shapes and structures, I was playing with composition and telling a story through sensory images. The more time I spent observing and collecting these forms, the more I felt the need to transition from representational to abstract – removing all narrative and figurative elements and focusing entirely on the emotional powers of form and colour to express nature’s visceral characteristics and my inner feelings...

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Eastwood Fine Art: You have experience across many creative fields, including graphic design, exhibition design, dance direction, choreography and writing, among others. Do you draw on these different areas in creating your ceramics?

Deborah Tiso: I used to be struck by how many differences there seemed to be between ceramic art and dance art, the most obvious being that ceramics is essentially a static medium, unlike dance, which is spontaneous and ephemeral. For me, the dissimilarities have become far less pronounced since developing my own ceramic practice, making vessels and sculptures...

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