Original artwork description:

Sphagnum State 1, 48 x 36 inches
Oil paint and iridescent pigment on paper bonded to stretched canvas
The Cotton Grass pond in the sphagnum bog in the wind.
It is part of a series based on my spending a lot of lonely time on the sphagnum moors, seeing them in every season. I allowed the qualities of the mosses and boggy upland wetlands to seep into me and later in the studio begin to paint, setting up a framework of marks to begin with which then form a new landscape on the canvas, with its own rules and rhythms. I aim to work with these elements on the canvas in a way the resonates with the forces I have been interacting with, the flow of the water, the trickling source of a river, the waving grasses and cotton grass flowers, the internal systems that are holding water and carbon that have been set up within this small patch of land over millennia. That is what I want the painting to say
Painters that I admire are many, but I always am drawn to artists who allow their materials to have a voice to help them to speak what they want to say. So some of them are - Josef Beuys, Vera Rohm, Lita Albuquerque, Max Ernst, Helen Chadwick, Vija Celmins, Robert Smithson, Callum Innes, Victor Grippo, Layla Curtis, Tania Kovats, Tim Knowles, Antoni Tapies

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Original Created:2020
Subjects:Abstract
Materials:Canvas, Strong paper, gesso primer
Styles:Abstract, Abstract Expressionism, Expressionism, Fine Art, Modern
Mediums:Oil, Iridescent Pigment
The painting will be rolled for shipping ready to be framed to your preference.

Materials used:

Artists oil paint, Iridescent pigment, gesso, varnish

Tags:

#oil painting #modern #fine art #abstract landscape #landscape painting #uk artist #pond painting #moorland painting #environment painting #sphagnum bog #ecology green #upland mountain