In landscape I like to work with pencil and charcoal in a large format, using shade and etched lines to convey space and light, and in some cases then coloured pencil. The intention here is to produce an engaging, perhaps intriguing image when viewed from a distance, but one that reveals other dimensions and details the closer it is viewed. For commissions this can include embedding images from memory, of favourite places or stories, within an overall landscape. There are no sign posts, you will have to look for these images, they should always be pleasing, but they reveal their significance only to those ‘in the know’.
I am also interested in how we respond to colour. Perhaps all art is colour, the sensations of colour, the interaction of colour with line, and our response to it. Lines are straight or curved. I pay attention to the geometries and patterns of the landscape, its points, lines & surfaces. In producing the images, the product is line, circle, and colour, the interest is proportion and perspective. The intent is to produce images of harmony, that fascinate and captivate, that intrigue. In some cases the purpose of the line is to trigger an almost illusionary sense of movement or pulsing. Using just red, green, blue, and the white of the page. Each image I design is a line composition then an experiment with colour.
When creating images in perspective, I use either the one vanishing point or two vanishing point method, discovered techniques going back to the renaissance.
