Buckinghamshire New University

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‘New Land’

Photographs of installation of thirteen paintings. Oil on canvas.

Six paintings 150 cm x 57 cm

Seven Paintings 61.5 cm x 46.5 cm

Photographs of paintings to follow.

The experience of positioning, hanging and viewing the work in the gallery space has been invaluable. It was for me as if I hadn’t really seen the paintings before clearly. The colour relationship altered with each move. The changing light, flooding in through the glass wall worked intriguing ambiguities within the layers of pigment and glaze. I can now see the connections and ideas emerging in a way that I could not before.

Questions are often raised in the studio about how the viewer will see the work, what we may want them to gain from the experience and what we want the work to be ‘doing’. We talk amongst ourselves using our shared language and wonder if these questions are really related to what we do in our process, ‘don’t I just do this for myself, isn’t this my studio practice, it doesn’t really matter what other people make of it all?’

It was fantastic at my private view last night for me to hear people talk about the paintings and to see them engaging with the work. I had imagined that it was only me that had a meaningful relationship with the work and that this would be what the viewer would witness. It was unexpectedly thrilling to discover that this is not an exclusive relationship at all, but one that is it is open and accessible.

Photographs to follow.

Paintings are bubble wrapped.

Tool kit bag is packed.

Printed sheets prepared.

Norden Farm Gallery tomorrow