The sketchbook for the project was a series of analogue photographs taken during the winter of 2005-6
I was exploring the Cambrian mountain region of Wales and the inner region of the Czech Republic called Moravia.
At the time I was trying to connect the two cultures through landscape.
I had been across Eastern Europe at an earlier stage when I visited the then Yugoslavia and after that Romania and Hungary, the rural landscapes were immensely evocative to me with the history of the movement of people being a direct influence on the memory aspect of the work.
I saw most of the landscapes from a train or bus window or while on foot. I decided to use my memory rather more than I would have normally to produce the final pieces and although I eventually had a folder of photraphs to refer to I found that my memory became more sharp once I began producing the work on canvas..
The largest paintings were approx 300 cm x 200 cm, they needed quite a lot of space which the mid Wales arts centres provided for final exhibition.
