Description
In this ‘earthscape’ I have tried to convey the historical changes that the land itself has undergone. From the tin mining ‘Poldark’ era, where many lives where lost, as its internal, natural resources were ravaged, to the era when artists such as ‘The Newlyn Group’ colonised the area to explore the ‘unique light’ effect of South West Cornwall, and later by the modern artists such as: Ben Nicholson, Patrick Heron, Terry Frost and Barbara Hepworth whose vision paid tribute to the wild purity of this peninsula.
I have fragmented the whole image into rectangles to suggest ‘postcards’ from an era before the digital revolution, when a part of holiday-making was to send ‘wish you were here’ cards to friends and family. I have included one of the rectangles, naively styled, to suggest the work of Alfred Wallis. The Eden Project is also represented to show how we are now attempting to compensate for the damage done to our environment.
The whole painting is intended to invite the viewer into a visual game of hide and seek through time, where images trigger stories, memories and experiences, ranging from sand dunes to surfers, from mine-shafts to eco-projects, from postcards to paintings.
