Dwelling Fusion – Introduction
This project documents life for me as one travelling between two homes. My first home in Suffolk and my additional new home, in the north east of England. It reflects the familiar and the new in the domestic setting and in many respects attempts to bridge the three hundred mile divide of the Roman-built Great North Road, today’s A1(M), which, for me, evokes a deep sense of history.
As a result of this I came to realise that the items I selected as themes of work began to echo not just the common articles in many homes today, but the core survival elements necessary for life in the north of the northern hemisphere. Throughout history, these have been traditionally representative of the heart of the home, the shelter, the fire and cooking facilities.
Today I have been thinking about a series of paintings that go some way towards illustrating my present life that is split between East Anglian and the North East of England.
I began looking at photographs, making sketches and working from memory to make my first work featuring a fusion of homes, with the addition of a central entrance with door ajar to symbolise free flow of movement between the two. I have begun to apply paint. One side features the Suffolk pink so characteristic of the county.
