2010-11
Paintings/
Paper landscapes
Paintings/
Paper landscapes
A landscape would have been nice, oil on mount board, 10.5 x 15 cm. Private collection
A Repeated Act of Viewing, oil on mount board, 17 x 13.5cm
Private collection
(My) Reductive Tendencies, oil on mount board, 25 x 18 cm
Private collection
Paper Landscape (1), oil on mount board, 21 x 14 cm
Private collection
Paper Landscape (2), oil on mount board, 19.5 x 14 cm
Private collection
Paper Landscape (3), oil on paper, 23 x 14.5 cm
Private collection
A painted backdrop, oil on paper, 24.5 x 16 cm
Private collection
From which he observes but does not participate, oil on paper, 12.5 x 20 cm. Private collection
Landscape stands for a space in which history disappears, oil on paper, 84 x 59 cm Private collection
Landscape unknown, oil on canvas 114 x 91.5 cm. Private collection
If you could only see it with my eyes, oil on canvas 127 x 101 cm. Private collection
A series of paintings investigating landscape as background, drawing on British 18th-19th-century portraiture made during a period when landscape was being established as a genre. These fragments of landscapes explore their own existence as a set, a device and act of repetition with the removal of the figure acting as both deletion and assertion of its presence.
︎Text
‘Landscape: a mode of seeing, a mode of painting, of perceiving and of representing.’
– W. J. T. Mitchell, ‘Gombrich and the rise of landscape’, in Ann Bermingham and John Brewer (eds), The Consumption of Culture 1600-1800 Image, Object, Text (Routledge 1997), p.104