Benighted Sea (framed)
Ink and pastel on paper
2017
Total frame size: 79 ✕ 58 ✕ 3 cm
Image size: 65 ✕ 45 ✕ cm
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The pastel is first crumbled onto the paper in small amounts, then smoothed across the surface by hand. The mountain areas are made using a dip pen with fine nib.
This work explores the mountainous seascape as a threshold between visible landscape and the deeper qualities we sense within it. When making this image I was living in Scotland and longing for the storm ravished coastline of the north west in autumn. I intended this to evoke that presence of unfathomable power, invigorating and unnerving in its ceaseless motion, which one can sense when braced again a storm. The desire to embody and unite with that presence in some way.
This work on paper has been professionally framed in a bespoke wooden frame.
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About the Artist
Working in mixed-media drawing and painting, my work explores landscape as a language of reverence, imagination, and the numinous, with a particular focus on mountain forms.
I am an elected Professional Member of the Scottish Society of Artists (SSA), and have exhibited widely across the UK, including the Royal Scottish Academy Annual, Royal West of England Academy Annual, Visual Arts Scotland, Scottish Society of Artists exhibitions, and other group and solo shows.
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