Painted after the first lock down in 2020, in a period of time when travel was still impossible, holidays were cancelled and the population of urban cities like London could only dream of coastal holidays in the sun. Inspired by images and sketches from a trip to the Scilly Isles before lock down, the subject matter references the desire to travel that was denied to everyone through 2020.
Navigating a journey between abstract and representational work, and part of a series of paintings that utilise the idea of negative space, these pieces depict a subject defined by a drawn white line. Close up the paintings are all about the layers, and brush marks, and colour, with the negative space as shapes in the foreground, but as you move back from close inspection then the paint reforms as something more referential.
A duo of paintings drawn from images of Tresco Abbey Gardens, using the outline of palm trees and subtropical foliage.
Acrylic on cradled board.