Cassandra-Lyn Palmer is a mixed-media artist whose practice is grounded in curiosity — a sustained attentiveness to landscapes, objects, histories, memories, and daily encounters. Her work explores the endurance and fragility of place, as well as the layered narratives embedded within the

environments we inhabit. For Palmer, landscapes, people, and experiences are fluid and

ever-changing; they hold traces of time, memory, and transformation.

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Working predominantly on paper, Palmer creates tactile, textural surfaces that operate as records

of lived experience. Her works often begin with a material encounter — an intuitive, physical

response to a moment. Through touch, staining, burning, layering, and mark-making, these

initial reactions evolve into poetic visual narratives. Each surface becomes a repository of time:

an accumulation of gestures, residues, and embedded meaning.

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Materiality is central to her practice. Palmer frequently employs site-responsive processes —

leaving paper submerged in rivers to absorb organic stains, collecting pigments from specific

locations,working with shadows beneath trees, and incorporating berries, plant dyes, and burnt

elements alongside traditional media. These processes allow the environment to act as a collaborator,

imprinting itself directly onto the work. The resulting forms hold both presence and absence —

a quiet tension between what endures and what erodes.

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Palmer’s layered paper works evoke the sensation of touch and the desire to reach toward memory. By altering and activating space through material transformation, she crafts intimate narratives drawn from lived experience. Her practice invites viewers to slow down, to notice subtle shifts in texture and tone, and to consider how places carry stories — fragile yet persistent — within their surfaces.

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