I Have Been Laying Here.... Perfectly Still....
Recently I have been working on a series of landscape images which are concerned with the notions of spirituality and contemplation which can be found in the works of the painters and poets of the romantic movement in the 18th century.
I am interested in the contemplative links to our surroundings and have this can evoke emotional responses. Whilst making these images I am concentrating on locations which are left untouched, forgotten or serve no purpose. Areas such as the edges of train lines and motorways,and abandoned development plots where the natural world is left unmaintained and uncontrolled. These locations begin to contain some of the ideas of sublimity discussed by the romantics as perhaps the forgotten or uncared for areas represent the last vestige of untamed nature available to us.
I am currently developing this project as part of my PHD thesis.
