Abstract
What constitutes the "techo-sublime"? This is the subject that Barbara Bolt sought to explore in a recent exhibition at Noosa Regional Gallery. Bolt's paintings shimmered with washes of luminous colour that shifted and dissolved to draw in the viewer. They pulsated with vibrating visual effects that unsettled vision. They fused fields of electric colour that overwhelmed the viewer, and it is in these ways that they generated what the artist called an "affecting presence".