Acrylic on canvas
For the last year or so we have lived in a farmhouse on the edge of Skipwith Common, a large area of ancient wetland, situated a few miles south of York. My small upstairs studio looks out across the field to the trees that fringe the common and we walk there often. It is a powerful and varied landscape and I am aware that in the elusive way that these things happen, it has had a discernible influence on my work. Not only has it been a very productive period, but also while the work itself remains thoroughly abstract, I have begun to sense in these paintings certain reverberations and rhythms which seem to have their origins in the nearby landscape. This began to be apparent to me in the Night Factor paintings but in the present series it has become more pronounced.
