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

Finding myself. Finding connection. Homing in on skills whilst being in one place for a longer than usual time during lockdown in 2020, I used the self- isolation of to observe and reflect interacting with the landscape, literally within a running distance from my front door. 

This way of working has always been there, I catalogue and draw out the details within my surroundings. Figuring out its unique and bespoke sense of place and taking it with me.

Each collection has a different title as I find myself using different techniques and approaches to my paintings. Playing with memory, using it to ground myself and recalling the rolling landscapes as I run past. 

Using these different techniques to immerse myself within the landscape is amazing as I find new ways 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.

Fragmented. Is a collection using literal fragments of a moving landscape snapped and captured within the movement and colour I picked out.