Stroll Along The Lea Artwork

The Hackney Marshes lie just 500m from my front door and with the pandemic restricting our movements I was drawn closer into this landscape. The daily routine of walking across this landscape provided calm, a necessity that became a large influence on my new body of work called ‘Interactions.’ The importance of the marshes became integral and these fundamental feelings are reflected through my use of emotive colour and expressive brushstrokes, capturing a personal response to the energy and beauty of the urban-rural landscape often lost or taken for granted. I am fascinated by the use of colour and how it can influence feeling and change perception, prompting interactions that ‘feel’ rather than ‘see’. Recurring themes of opposites play with analogue & digital, the natural & hyperreal and blur the lines of what is real and imaginary. I use a blend of analogue and digital printmaking processes combined with acrylic painting. Preliminary colour studies in the form of sketches, photography and collage are developed in the studio. Layers of acrylic paint are energetically applied and wiped back, the movement of paint and the unexpected imperfections of printmaking give expressive depth. Digital experimentation creates unexpected colour that distorts reality prompting a new response. These studies then inform painting and traditional printmaking, and the cycle continues. Acrylic on plywood panel with hand-pulled screen print Framed in a dark ink blue wooden tray frame Signed Comes with a Certificate of Authenticity