Original artwork description:

Painted after a walk down the 'High Weald Landscape Trail'.

Whilst I will always paint on handmade canvases, some of my work is applied on stitched canvas. By using every scrap of material, I intend to avoid waste whilst simultaneously highlighting society’s effort to overlook the clear environmental problems in our world today. I choose this way of working to reflect on the urgency of climate change, showing the contrast between an unstable climate with the beauty and harmony that still exists in our landscape today. By painting this way, the viewer is given a choice; to ignore the material and focus on the setting portrayed, or to be reminded of the instability of the landscape’s existence, carrying this forward in their everyday thinking.

Materials used:

Stitched canvas, Oil paint

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