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United Kingdom
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 44.1 W x 36.2 H x 1.6 D in
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when making this painting i was thinking about a chasm of water, an underwater waterfall which could lead to another space. The painting first began with two mountains either side, but these developed in to two different mythological creatures, somewhere between a unicorn mixed with a bird and dragon and a sort of whale which extended up into the space above it. I wrote a text alongside this painting: You jump Across the water flowing, but don't reach the other side You fall Into the abyss Down deep into the depths of the darkness You are the darkness Travelling alone Travelling through tunnels of water You realise there's actually a lot of light in the dark. You keep pushing forward Through the depths Until you come to the pearl In the great abyss. The pearl contains at once all the tears of the world and at the same time all it's wisdom. Picking up the pearl you clutch it close to your heart. You hear messages, it's guidance streaming in to your heart. You cry, wailing crying to everything that came before. And then you swim Up Up Up You see the bank on the other side Calling to you. This side is yours now. This is where your new life begins.
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:44.1 W x 36.2 H x 1.6 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
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My practice investigates how we attempt to locate our place in the world through journeying and storytelling. The ways in which we re-discover, re-fashion and re-tell our collected memories of adventure. Ultimately pulling these experiences back into our everyday where they don’t belong. I grew up with stories, hearing fairytales and stories invented right before bedtime. I am fascinated by the possibility for endless creation and re-creation of a story, as with a painting, through the relationship between the creator and the audience. The way in which the audience navigates through my paintings, has long been a concern of mine. Points jolt and push away from a coherent reading of the work. The paintings turn and twist you (the viewer) around, spitting you out in a seemingly recognisable world but you're not quite sure if standing on your head was always normal. The paintings often journey themselves: Working out and re-routing, building like a map through the canvas. Plotting a personal journey through the world.The paintings create a truth that exists within the realm of painting by cutting, sticking and pasting together perhaps un-related or geographically distant memories. Objects and motifs anchor down certain points, allowing moments to breathe in an otherwise tumultuous whirring of paint. In some way this is similar to the way in which I remember; hazy colours, contrasted with more sharply defined moments to delve in to. Writing stories that blend the genuine with the imagined often springboard ideas for the paintings. These stories are becoming increasingly important to the paintings. Notions of the fairytale are often touched upon; loaded in the title or the environment of the painting. Many of my paintings are set within the wood, a culturally accepted ominous place. We expect dark things to happen within the wood. Yet I try to invert this notion. My woodlands and jungles are less foreboding: Hyper-real colours, that swirl through the painting bombarding and disorientating in a different way to the deep, dark wood. Something unsettling remains, lurking, in spite of the saccharine colours. Influenced lately by J.G. Ballard’s The Crystal World, where an entire forest and all its content become totally crystallised: The dark forest is covered over by beautiful, glistening crystals. My work tugs in oppositions: domestic/exotic, painterly / linear, 2D / 3D, reality/fiction.
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