Pink/ 12.11.19

(Pink, 125x145cm, Acrylic on Linen, November 2019.)

The splashy watercolour background sets the colour palette and acts as an abstract background to the more illustrative elements. This one was very quick to paint and has limited brushstrokes, which I like the effect of. It makes the landscape very delicate, light and quite playful, though the singular tree in the foreground anchors the landscape with its more violent, strong marks.

The subject matter that I choose to depict is very important to me. It is a very personal exploration of my surroundings intertwined with my relationship to place. Trees have been around a lot longer than people, and most trees that we see today have been there before we were born, and will still be there when we die. Trees and forests have always been associated with magic, folklore, and fairytales and have been the focus of many stories and myths. They also have played a great part in industrialisation. Timber was mined heavily for many years, so a lot of our landscape today, although looks very natural and untouched, was likely manipulated and controlled by this business, therefore another element of our landscape that has been sculpted by man.