Poster: Claire
(see this users gallery)
STATEMENT OF WORK
The British Landscape tradition has always fascinated me. Throughout the tradition the majority of landscape painting looks representational and true to life, but it is not, rather it is what the artist perceives or wants it to be.
I enjoy this ambiguity, I take elements from nature that the everyday rambler would not notice and I reproduce them. I combine these elements to create new and different forms that hint at the source but produce something entirely different. Using the landscape tradition in an entirely different and new way.
The natural forms and textures I use are from the British landscape today, either a husk or leaf I find walking, or an exotic flower or vegetable which symbolises the gardening tradition and how we have manipulated/changed and imported the current landscape.
I believe that past landscape artists have manipulated our perception of the term ‘landscape’. If we were to imagine the term landscape, we are more likely to think of a Constable painting than what is really there and I like the playfulness of using elements that are direct from the landscape in such a way that they become unrecognisable.
I take sensuous macro elements from natural forms and combine and enlarge them either through photographic and digital techniques to recreate flora and fauna in a partially fractured abstract form or through painting and mixed media to create strong, brightly coloured images.
2007
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