Slow
When I record photographic images, I am recording a time as well as a place, and a gesture within it - the action of pressing the shutter release. The effect was at first accidental, but as I experimented, I found it made the image less static and more emotive, perhaps even wistful, appealing to memory. The effect can be heightened by then rendering the image onto canvas with paint. It emphasises the moment, gives it an importance and intention, with texture and context. I am interested in exploring how the camera renders the movement, and how this can be translated back for the eye to stimulate and simulate the original effect, as well as the emotional effect on the viewer. |
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I am exploring these ideas within the context of natural landscapes and the traditional values associated with them. I am interested in the infiltration of this modern utopia upon the countryside and the compromises that occur in our hunger to dominate and control the landscape, in pursuit of a 'better' life - like the commonplace infrastructure of pylons, bridges, motorways and tower blocks. In particlular, I find the frayed edges of urban environments, the transitory areas, most appealing. The source photographs are slowly being transformed into paintings.