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WTP Second Place 2019
For Fine Art
“Known geographical detail can be expunged by a
coastal mist, smudged away by a downpour or bleached out by intense low morning or evening sun. It is these transitions from one
state to another that the paintings are dealing with, small periods of time, not really a singular moment as such. They are also not meant to be of a particular place, hence the rarity with which they are titled with a geographical name. This is in some way to stop the name already defining a picture in the viewer’s mind. I aim for them to evoke a place, perhaps in your memories of somewhere you have been to. To describe a feeling, atmosphere during a passage of time. The viewer is bringing something to the painting as well, the painting draws it out of you only to deliver you back through the layers of light and depth.”
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