Figurative paintings, drawings and film made as a response to the landscape.
PAINTING
Back Lane Studio, 22 Back Lane, Holmfirth, HD9 1HG
01484 680647
The work is bound up with my obsession with fell running and explores the relationship between the land and the creatures that inhabit it. Ideas of theology and mythology are an undercurrent throughout the work.
I record the physical and spiritual experience of running alone on the moors through drawing, film and sound.
I make paintings and films to communicate the physicality of these experiences. The birds and animals encountered when running (in particular the crow and the hare) I have used throughout the work as analogies for human existence. They are a celebration of the intensity and power of life but also a cruel reminder of the futility of our fleeting existence.