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IN THE MUD ON YOUR KNEES
During my time at Arteles it was the perfect opportunity to go
on phantasmagorical drifts through the Finnish landscape and
woodlands.
While on these walks I noted the landscape with photos and
drawings, building up reference material and looking at structures
within these spaces, I created a series of watercolours and pen
drawings as studies and finished works, the bright colours and
neon pens create a heightened sense of reality, particularly with
the use of contrasting colours to the natural landscape to create a
colonised version of the area while looking at the psyche which is
superimposed on to the landscape with other figures drifting in to
these works unobserved like narrators of there own cryptic world.
The reference material I gathered while in Finland will have
an indelible effect on future works especially the otherworldly
landscape.