Statement
Hallsands Paintings
For the past 10 years my work has explored the nature of being in a distinct place and moment in time: Start Bay on the south coast of Devon.
The heart of my enquiry is how being part of the ecology of a place and moment transfers and self generates in and through the work. The sequence of becoming, the dynamic of succession; inhabiting this process of how life emerges and returns continually, is my interest. It grows from days of sketching and sourcing repeatedly in specific locations, watching change and repeat through minute, day, month, and season.
I look at how sensory elements are filtered, signified and reorganised through the memory of the hand. The mark making is emergent, disclosing and materialising form through time, evolving through phenomena and continually driven by succession.
Through this process, witnessing and being in a location, the continual rhythm and fragmentation, the flow of separation and conflation, a distinct fabric of existence rooted in space evolves. This new ecology of active space and meaning emerges continually through the many dynamic processes at play.
Influenced by Cezanne, Klee, Kandinsky, and the 1960’s modernists, my interest relates to the contemporary painters Amy Sillman, Julie Mehretu, Matthew Ritchie, and Brice Marden.
