Lansdown Hall and Gallery
Wednesday 25th – Monday 30th June
10.00am – 5.30pm
Members of the public are warmly invited to the Private View on Tuesday 24th June between 6.30pm to 8.30pm.
Close to the Edge explores the limits, restrictions and value of boundaries within the landscape.
Increasingly the landscape is under pressure to meet social, economic and environmental needs: what is the relatively untouched edges, the ‘set-aside,’ the undergrowth, all of which are now recognised as vital for wildlife diversity.
This series of work looks at the apparent disarray of plants in our hedgerows, the transition between one element and another and the contrast in the untidiness of the undergrowth.
It is also an attempt to look at the landscape not as a postcard moment but as a vibrant, changing detail, indicating what might result in nature free. The format draws on the Eastern tradition of formalised shapes, non-linear perspective and story telling.
The work represents one year of looking with each painting starting on site, working in all weathers and allowing the weather to affect the work: rain bleeding the colour, snow making an indent, cold quickening responses, muddy puddles adding shapes and wind blowing inks across a canvas.