Portfolio

This portfolio contains a selection of art work in more or less reverse chronological order.

‘HINTERLAND’

2021- 24

These paintings (image objects) were initially inspired by extracts from a book about 19thc railways and their impact on the perception of landscape – a sequential framed experience rather than a slow erratic and immersive one.

  I wondered how this related to my experiences of rail journeys through London’s suburbs and sometimes further afield; and how paradoxically the photographic apparatus suggests human perception to be made of breaks, absences, dislocations rather than a smooth glide. The Paintings are an attempt to reconcile the apparent with the occluded; and perhaps point to a hinterland where image and place perfectly coalesce.

“……it is hard not to feel that some part of myself is left there permanently in motion back and forth, a pale reflection in the carriage window overlaid on the skies and buildings rushing past.”

James Attlee, ‘Station to Station’

The dimensions of these works range from 46cm x 28cm to 36cm x 23cm