Cross Fertilisation
How Observing the Landscape filters into Abstract Florals
This year I plan to make a collection of smaller paintings both for York Open Studios and for my end of year exhibition at Gallery Fort Nine in Bridlington. As well as new paintings, I have begun a body of work on paper, both Landscapes and Abstract Floral. These will be available at York Open Studios in April this year. I think my style is changing again into something more loose and wild. I look forward to sharing these with you.
A lot of my work takes place in my brain, before putting pen to paper. I walk and look and look again, in the outstanding countryside where I live, in all weather and at every time of year. I like to store images away and re-arrange them before I begin drawing, to think deeply about how I will describe what I see. The work is as much about how a landscape ‘feels’ as how it looks.
Photography by Sarah Banks
This imbibing of how a landscape ‘feels is perfect preparation for my Abstract Florals where all those feelings come out. Here I work entirely from my imagination which provides a wonderful release from the more closely observed discipline of my landscapes. I realise that, my love of nature and the hours spent observing landscape, comes out in my abstract floral paintings. This could be seen as a sort of cross fertilisation.
