LANDSCAPES 2006-7
My current body of work is rooted in the tradition of landscape in art, which as conventionally conceived is a framed representation of a section of the natural world, but could be studied comparatively across a range of traditions. I am not particularly orientated towards any specific tradition of landscape. In my research I have looked towards artists such as: Anselm Kiefer,Albert Tucker, Anthony Whishaw, Andrew Rogers, Andy Goldsworthy, Richard Long and Janet Cardiff.I have been investigating their sensuous, aesthetic and spiritual experience and appreciation of landscape in association with the aesthetic pleasures of form, contour, texture, light and sound as well as the spiritual as generated by submergence into the sensuous experience. The above mentioned artists influence me by their perceptions, and the ways they penetrate nature intellectually and emotionally responding in unique ways to the ‘sensations generated by feeling landscape as a living environment’ . Similarly, in my work I share with the viewer my personal apprehension of the world, which is a response to what I see, but also represents an invitation to interact with the world around us. My intention to show what often is not seen intends to empower the audience to search and express the issues not freely discussed in daily life. In my art I see the necessity to encourage the viewer to confront the pain, fear, despair, brokenness, loneliness of society, of which I am being a part.