Some Showers Print

Debbie Goldsmith’s starting point is the landscape and in particular that of Cheshire where she currently lives and works. She uses the local countryside to make field notes and drawings whilst out walking, her quick sketches note the change in season and weather. Back in the studio she uses the sketches as a starting point and employs experimental processes in drawing and printmaking to generate a unique vocabulary of mark-making and exploring various compositions which she then works up into larger scale-paintings. In the studio Goldsmith’s painting process is both meditative and deliberate in its approach. Her intention is to capture something of the outside to bring in, glimpses of recognisable shapes, repeat as a devise to catch the eye, one might recognise the shape of a tree, the edge a field, a path and although starting with specific subject matter her practice eventually becomes more exploratory and loose. The scale of the work is important as it relates to the way in which the work is made, the physicality of painting is evident, but it is also a way of inviting the viewer to step in. Making the paintings is a physical act and this is evident in their scale and size and the use of bold, sweeping brushstrokes that create an energetic sense of movement and flow.