Landscapes, Edgelands and The Sublime
Developed from the artist's ongoing consideration of landscape, these works invoke memories, personal history, cultural myths, 'edgelands' and the Sublime in contemporary art. The themes are explored through multi layered imagery and realised in photography, printmaking, drawing, and painting.
Landscape, Edgelands, the Beautiful and the Sublime:
Human history can be defined in context to our relationship with the natural landscape; as humans we both shape and are shaped by it. Landscape is deeply and richly embedded into our very language, into our culture, imagination and psyche.
Our managed landscapes, both rural and urban, are abundant, familiar and close, whilst true wilderness seems rare, remote and exotic. Sometimes though, little pockets of ‘wilderness’ can be found amongst the managed landscapes, these are the ‘edgelands’ and marginal spaces where curious treasures can be found.
There is a constant tussle between the domesticated and the wild, and this is what interests me. My artistic practice explores this balance, searching for the fulcrum point.
The balance between the beautiful and the sublime shifts. Whether pastoral or wild, landscape can be places of memory, imagination, reality and myth: landscape is a journey not a destination.