My monotypes and adapted paintings that part-comprise, Impression Lointaine, evoke feelings of displacement and estrangement. These textured topographies stubbornly resist specificity yet provide access to an imagined landscape set apart from nature, shrouded in melancholic darkness; a world plundered and abandoned; a monochromatic end of days.
In these landscapes it is possible for our thoughts, dreams and perhaps even our nightmares to reside, no-doubt affected by suggestion and fleeting-mood. Traditional boundaries appear to fluctuate between dissolution and definition. The ground here is unsteady, our footing unsure because we are not easily accommodated by these depictions of the landscape: there is no horizon on which to focus, no easily identifiable fixed points to guide us.
However, this kind of uncertainty can encourage a particular kind of internal-freedom (of thought), seemingly brought about by the transient beauty of imaginary places – places we may idealise but never physically visit. These images offer a journey through a strange and unfamiliar environment whose tendency to compel reflection, invite the traveller to revisit memories of lived experiences – the influence of the natural environment upon our imagination.
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