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Landscapes

 

 

 

Urban and rural landscapes have been a recurrent theme through my time as a painter. They rarely contain people but bear the marks of landscapes changed by human intervention. I am particularly interested in finding something visually beautiful or extraordinary in everyday industrial architecture or new technologies that are commonly seen as unsightly. This could be cooling towers, pylons or wind turbines. Often resisted at the time of their construction as eye sores, these man-made structures have become part of the landscape, and some have even taken on a romanticism as we develop nostalgia for the disappearing industries which formed them.

In contrast, the landscapes of remote locations, which are dominated by the weather conditions and topography have also been a theme. (see also Lundy Island).

An example of Landscapes was the Rocky Mountains Project.

Rocky Mountains

With artist Robin Whitmore I took the Rocky Mountaineer train from Vancouver to Calgary. Armed with a till roll each and two hard pencils, we drew all the way.

Known for it's spectacular beauty, what unfurled was a journey from urban into glacial landscapes, lakes for miles on end, forest fires, ospreys in scraggly nests on telegraph poles and spiral tunnels through mountains at 20 miles and hour. We did our best to record this on two till roll drawings.

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