Original artwork description:

This painting is inspired by the poem by Ted Hughes in the book Remains of Elmet.
The image contains overlays of differing vista and viewpoints together with the walking man motif from a previous painting or iteration of latency correspondence and departure, content.
The walking man motif in this work enters top left and the shadow exits bottom right of the picture plane, this is one reading and causes visual tension with the other vista in a quietly conflicted composition. The form is figurative with some facits tilted or forced into a more abstract rendering, this creates windows or passages with which to engage. The painted surface references the "dog-eared" or "well thumbed" book mimicry featured in Harland Miller work at the Whitechapel London 2017. Anderson is referenced because of his handling of nostalgia as a value in his work and here allows me to consider Jon Singer Sargents "Gassed Soldiers" painting in the Imperial war Museum, London as latent aesthetic values (variation on form and content).
The correspondence between now and then is evident in the drawing of the Swann Inn on Mill Road at the centre of the painting, with its garnish of road signs dictating visually evidence of authority rules and social complicity.
Trying to make a space that does not end narratively speak was part of this works exploration if it feels uncomfortable in someway I am happy, I am drawn to but suspicious of nostalgia in a sense that I feel experience or history should teach us something.

Materials used:

Acrylic

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