Along the Atlantic Coast (monochrome)
2020
I am not sure what led me to make these paintings. I did not see them coming. I am not sure words can even come close to expressing the rationale, or need to make them when I did in early July. But I know I had to make them, and that by going through the painting process, in painting’s own unique time, something was purged and something let go of, and in by letting go, a new perspective on life was reached. The whole emotional journey was one motivated by instinct. I felt a lot of empathy for the mediums and materials. Painted over several days in the elements, starting with blackening out 6 canvases with oil paint and ink, from dawn to dusk, through rain and sun, I came through the paintings using only white paint. Along the journey painting, found objects were brought into the painting. I am not sure why, but I was simply drawn to their animistic characteristics, the curiosity to make something new, to reach out and touch the world. We got through it.
Documentation photos below taken by myself along the Atlantic coast of Cornwall, England in July, 2020.
Supported by a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, a grant from Arts Council of England
and a Crafts Council U.K. Hardship Fund for Makers Grant.
