James W Norton

James W. Norton
MA fine Art, FRSA

As a visual artist, my creative journey is deeply rooted in the exploration of landscapes and their nuanced memories, with a particular emphasis on how they bear witness to the profound impacts of climate change. My artistic endeavors lead me to locations that exude an intriguing atmosphere, yet carry an underlying disquiet, creating a constantly shifting narrative that traverses the realms of the past, present, and future. This profound interplay of human intervention in the natural world is at the heart of my artistic exploration. Transforming human time into geological time, exposing new topologies and the ghosts of structures left behind.
My physical process of painting serves as a metaphor to capture the essence of our changing landscapes and the interplay between geological time and human intervention. Through deliberate layering, textures, and the incorporation of cracks and fissures, my artwork echoes the transformative forces landscapes face. Each layer represents a narrative stratum and connects viewers to the ever-evolving relationship between human presence and the transformative impact they have on their surrounds. As a result, the paintings invite contemplation of the intricate relat...

Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University:
MA, Fine art, Distinction - 2012– 2014.

University of the Creative Arts (formerly Farnham Art School):
BA (Hons), Interior architecture, first class honors - 1993–1996.

Norwich Norwich Art School:
Foundation fine art, distinction - 1991–1993.

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Works/Exhibitions:

Portal, National Trust, Sudbury.
2022

The Prototype, National Trust, Sudbury.
2021

A Changing Landscape, Chester House Estate, Northampton.
2021

The Shivering River, Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh.
2021

Embedded Landscape, Rye Art Gallery, East Sussex.
2021

River Landscape, Private Commission, Cambridge.
2021

Climate-change Fiction, Peter Lang, Oxford.
2020

Parallax shift, Documenting Britain, Edinburgh.
2019

The Room, The National Trust, Monks House.
2018

Memories, The National Trust, Rainham Hall.
2017

Prelude, Battle Abbey, Battle.
2017

Rescored Landscape, Art of Float Gallery, Cambridge.
2016

Manifesting Monuments, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
2016

Grain Road, British Council, New Delhi.
2015.
 
After the Calm, Poetry Society, London.
2015

Norfolk Landscape, Mary Ward House Bloomsbury, London.
2014

The Gun, Poetry Festival at the Felix, Antwerp.
2014
 
Presence of Absence, On The Edge Arts Festival, Harwich.
2013

Incunabula, Changing Spaces Gallery, Cambridge.
2013

Live in the Landscape, Sea Palling, Norfolk.
2013

Janus, Museum of London, London.
2012

Legion, ...