— The Origin and Limit

2017 Arteles Creative Center Residency Finland

Swearing off the ideal picturesque of traditional landscape portrayal, The Origin and Limit presents an ecstatic vision of a scene — a compression of a mental image to a narrow compositional window, hinting at an expanse beyond the bounds of the work.

With a combination of unconventional techniques from dendritic mono-printing to dry mark-making through wet media, the enduring motifs of nature painting are subverted: a forest as a shamanic portal; a fulgurous sky; a frozen woodland floor interrupted erratically; an impervious brush through which light warps colour and form. In this visual shorthand, the scene looms closer in its abstraction, describing a nature no longer familiar.

Grimaced Out — 42 x 30 cm — acrylic monoprint on paper

Death Bridge — 42 x 30 cm — acrylic monoprint & chalk on paper

Wet Risk — 42 x 30 cm — oil monoprint & charcoal on paper

Marble Garden — 42 x 30 cm — oil monoprint on paper

Melted Rope — 42 x 30 cm — oil monoprint & charcoal on paper

Drowning while Whistling — 60 x 42 cm — oil monoprint & oil stick on paper

Sphinx Riddle — 60 x 42 cm — oil monoprint & oil stick on paper

Scarcely Sea — 60 x 42 cm — oil monoprint & oil stick on paper

Furthest Shore — 50 x 35 cm — oil monoprint on paper

Hidden Sea — 42 x 30 cm — oil monoprint on paper

Red Rhythm Thing — 42 x 30 cm — oil monoprint & chalk on paper

Seething Between — 42 x 30 cm — oil monoprint & chalk on paper

Somnambulist — 42 x 30 cm — oil monoprint on paper

Open Channeling — 42 x 30 cm — oil monoprint & charcoal on paper

Sensation of Drowning — 42 x 30 cm — oil monoprint & charcoal on paper

Wilting Ways — 50 x 35 cm — oil monoprint & charcoal on paper

Thunder Moon Gathering — 70 x 50 cm — oil monoprint & pastel on paper

Ocean Roar — 70 x 50 cm — oil monoprint & pastel on paper

Bending Moon — 42 x 30 cm — oil monoprint & charcoal on paper