B E H I N D T H E A R T

Finding myself in one place for a longer than usual time, I've used the self- isolation of lockdown to observe and reflect interacting with the landscape, literally within a running distance from my front door.

Each collection has a different title as I found myself using different techniques and approaches to my paintings. Ive played with memory using a memory to ground myself in a sense of place recalling the rolling landscapes as I run past. 

Using these different techniques to immerse myself within the landscape has been amazing as I found a new way to connect with my home. Painting and drawing can become very hands on as the instinctive marks become second nature, using a plethora of different tools to create a mark, using my body and brain in different ways always makes the art you produce much more exciting.

Using my photography and location there is a collection of new landscape paintings in varying sizes. I work over several pieces and several sizes all at one time as when I have a tool in hand the memory of my surroundings lives again.

Pigments that are indigenous to your location are incredible and I always find certain colours make me think of different places, I place these through out my work as ties to that specific time.

Ive also had fun creating a collection called fragmented. Literal fragments of a moving landscape snapped and captured within the movement and colour I picked out.