Statement
I’ve been working within landscape imagery for 15 years. Much of my work has to do with perspective. Linear perspective, surely, but also our emotional and collective perspective of landscape and personal space. The underlying conflict in my work is generated by climate change, land abuse and over consumption of all kinds, my own included.
From space our atmosphere is a thin skin. We can’t see the forest for the trees. It’s all or nothing. Sublime Nature. These perspectives frame how we see our world, and shape our future. I see my role as an artist as reactive – to describe what I see as our collective helplessness, contradictions and follies. Perhaps by visually distorting these perspectives, different meanings can come through them, and my paintings can nudge some of our most harmful dichotomies towards middle ground, nuance and balance.
I’ve been working within landscape imagery for 15 years. Much of my work has to do with perspective. Linear perspective, surely, but also our emotional and collective perspective of landscape and personal space. The underlying conflict in my work is generated by climate change, land abuse and over consumption of all kinds, my own included.
From space our atmosphere is a thin skin. We can’t see the forest for the trees. It’s all or nothing. Sublime Nature. These perspectives frame how we see our world, and shape our future. I see my role as an artist as reactive – to describe what I see as our collective helplessness, contradictions and follies. Perhaps by visually distorting these perspectives, different meanings can come through them, and my paintings can nudge some of our most harmful dichotomies towards middle ground, nuance and balance.
