Statement
My work concerns itself with
views of nature, attempting to uncover an essence which is available not only to
the eye but to the heart. The attempt is to offer
an intimacy with nature of the contemplative kind, allowing a reflective mood so
that there is a fusion of colour and form. The landscape is then seen with an
ambivalence driven by both configuration and representation allowing a dreaming
landscape to emerge.
Repeated observations of the
landscape recorded in sketches, pastel and photographs are then worked up in the
studio, through building up of layers which gradually allows form to emerge from
chaos and colour, each painting becoming a distillation of many encounters.
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