LOST HORIZONS
The paintings in this series respond to the light and atmospheric conditions experienced from my studio on the shore of Loch Nevis. The title, Lost Horizons, refers to those conditions where the sea and the sky and the land merge together and their boundaries become elusive.
I am drawn to exploring the point where ‘this’ becomes ‘that’, and the closer one looks the harder it is to define that point. Within all of these paintings there is the suggestion of a horizon giving compositional structure, but those horizons are ill-defined, or lost.
There is never a clear vision at the start, of how a painting will look at completion. Instead the painting will emerge out of process itself, rather than through planned application.
Like the ever-changing weather and light over the loch, the work develops through a slow, iterative process of adding layer upon layer of paint, sometimes in broad gestural strokes, sometimes in ordered horizontal bands. Each successive layer will suggest what should come next.
These paintings require to be looked at slowly, in the same way one would take in the landscape. By giving time, elements come into view gradually, nuances and relationships emerge quietly and slowly.
Paintings in this series cost between £500 and £3500
Please contact me for details.