Current Practice
Seascape Refits
Seascape Refits (SSR) is the title of an ongoing series of work.
The paintings are assembled from any number of differently constructed panels each of which have been built and perhaps painted.
This approach has emerged from interests and relationships with the material, the surface and the three dimensional qualities of ships, navigational buoys and other paraphernalia from boat yards and dock yards.
Whilst conceived as paintings they seem to exist in the peripheries between painting and sculpture.
The ‘seascape refit’ is quite literally the refitting or re-organisation of the tradition of British sea scape painting. A tradition that can be traced back to Turner, Nicholson and Scott to name but a few.
The term refit, in a literal interpretation, is used in the work of repairing and overhauling boats and ships. In the context of the paintings the refit is the modular system of differently constructed panels ,made from different materials , and that are interchangeable during the making process.
The paintings are made by this continual process of construction, layering and erosion, change and interchange.
RM 2011