About Samuel Kirk
Biography
Kirk is a figurative artist interested in how the impression of a place lives in the mind. Painting from memory, his subjects are often warped and distorted due to the imperfection of recall and the addition of thoughts and feelings. He says of his work 'As the Gothic painters relied primarily on memory of landscape, rather than painting from life, so they illustrated their thoughts and knowledge of a place, rather than creating exact reproductions. What they produced was a mindscape of where they lived and the ideas and beliefs that infused their lives. By not painting from life, but relying on my thoughts and ideas of the world, I am trying to do the same.'
