These pieces look at the tension that occurs between elements. They were heavily influenced by the experience of swimming in a kelp forest during the equinox in Co. Donegal. The eye is drawn to the distinct line across the canvas where colour and form are pushed against each other, as if from different vistas. Water and air pull together at the submerging horizon. The use of negative space adds to a sense of blurring between plains. Quick-blended brushstrokes in oil capture the feeling of dancing fractures where light succeeds and fails to permeate.
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NaCasa - Collectivo Artistica Florianopolis
It is a rare treat to be able to spend 3 weeks totally dedicated to making new work, and even rarer that you get to do it in 8.5 thousand KM away from home. My residency at NaCasa comes at a really nice moment in my life as I move into a new chapter. This trip to Brazil marks the end of 2 years of hard graft. I feel proud of what I have achieved; I am making more, and exhibiting more art than I ever have before, Lay of the Land is in it’s 3rd year, and about to embark the 4th series, and most ambitious yet, of projects, and I am making almost all of my income from my creativity. But more than these facts, I am reaching a point where I am excited to lay down some new plans.
Until now I have been enjoying moving and uprooting often. This has been incredible but after 4 years I feel a new movement coming. Staying still feels quite unknown, and definitely quite unusual, and I am also aware that as I write this I am sitting in an art studio in Florianopolis Brazil, away from structure or routine. But sitting here is different to times before;I am coming to decisions, and coming to realise where I want to go.
Photos: Fellipe Lopes. www.cogordie.com