Mappa Mundi meum

Description

Mappa Mundi meum, from the new series « The intelligence of feeling », was painted in 2016, whilst exploring my inner sense of place and space, and whilst realising that my work displayed echos of the Chinese landscapes of the Song and Yuan dynasty which become symbolic shorthand and emblems of the Artist’s character and spirit. This new painting series, whilst drawing on scape, is primarily defined by emotion and feeling. I continue to explore the balance of chance and control during the painting process, whilst remembering and considering absence, time, distance, vulnerability, difficulty, loss and the notion of sometimes feeling lost….. the human condition. I use pallet knife, brush and sponge building up layers and washing away in a process that becomes as important to remove as to add, a kind of reverberation of relationship with the canvas of addition and subtraction, push and pull. I intend to create something that is metaphorical, ambiguous, chimerical, organic and elemental. Signed and dated on the side of the canvas the painting is ready to hang. The canvas is deep edged 4.4cm which shows small signs of the working process to the canvas side.