Original artwork description:

This painting takes on the mimesis of a topographical landscape, becoming something more in the imagination of the viewer, as though for the time one looks upon the image, one is transported and transformed. Here, through the elements of nature, we see the reinactment of an object from the landscape - the environmental aspect, the resonances of one form to another, embodying the sublime fascination we have with the environment and the use of material from it to form new objects through the interaction of artistry and the captured views of travelling across the Somerset Levels and those fleeting glimpses of yellow fields and overcast skies.

The painting uses rock pigments collected from my walks and travels in the landscape of Somerset, Spain, Cyprus and Mexico. The rocks were collected during my walks and travels, turning into powder and using as pigment to create these small paintings exploring the accidental and incidental.

The combination of listening to music and working with nature, through various elements including the powder, movement of water, sea water, snow water, hailstone water, turps, linseed and gravity exploring the intervention of the artist with a variety of materials and means to capture the essence of the moment, forming these topographical works on paper.
The collaborative pieces between the artist and the materials draw out the natural and the manipulated, forming paintings that explore the movement of nature, entropy and conceptual thoughts influenced in subtle ways through the intervention of sound to form poetical painting with natural materials and industrially made material, resonating with the Anthropocene age.

Mounted with a mount, backing board and cellophane bag. Ready for framing.

Materials used:

Oil Paper, Rock Pigments, Linseed Oil, Turps, Seawater, Hailstone water, Snowwater, Dammar varnish, Fixative, Matt Varnish

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