Rocks, 2019

All the works date from 2019 and are pigmented alkyd resin on 192 x 120 cm aluminium panels.

For images of the works installed in Expanding Landscape: Painting after Land Art, click here.

The works in this series compound a number of different scales of time: they are developed from images of cliffs taken with a modified digital scanner that records the passage of light from left to right over a period of several minutes; the strata of the rock records the passage of millions of years from bottom to top; the paint surface is formed of many layers built up over many month and has its own evident stratigraphy.

An analogous sense of building up an impression or a landscape over a sustained duration plays out, I like to imagine, for the viewer experiencing the resulting works, which contain numberless possible variations depending on the light in which they are seen.