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Painting with Earth: North devon 2010-2017

“I am no longer sure of what I am doing. But then, quite simply, I am painting. I am putting together objects from materials that I gather locally, here in North Devon. Materials that are significant to me. That have stories to tell. That connect me to this place and to my being. The objects created are celebrations of this life. They are explorations. Simple, intuitive journeys of making in the here and now…”

I have spent the last nine years researching the geology, history and uses of the rich earth pigments to be found in North Devon and the West Country. The use of such materials has allowed my work to develop in response to the processes and provenance offered by the materials themselves, their discovery and collection and the practicalities of paint making, through simple mark-making and a limited but environmentally defined colour palette.

a fischiare/Pfeifen/siffler/to whistle (earth pigments on board; 20x20cm) © p ward 2017
un nuovo modo di parlare/eine neue Art zu sprechen/une nouvelle façon de parler/a new way to speak (earth pigments on reclaimed wood) © p ward 2017
una capra in turbolenza/eine Ziege in Aufruhr/une chèvre dans la tourmente/a goat in turmoil (earth pigments on board) © p ward 2017
lupo/Wolf/loup/wolf (earth pigments on board) © p ward 2017
danza/tanzen/Danse/dance, earth pigments on reclaimed wood © p ward 2017
diversity culturale/kulturelle Vielfalt/diversité culturelle/cultural diversity (earth pigments on reclaimed wood) © p ward 2017
le dita intrecciate/Hände verschlungen/mains enlacées/hands entwined (earth pigments on board) © p ward 2017
il pipistrello e la leper/die Fledermaus und der Hase/la chauve-souris et le lièvre/the bat and the hare (earth pigments on board) © p ward 2017
sorriso dentro/innen lächeln/sourire à l'intérieur/smile inside (reclaimed wood and rock) © p ward 2017
childish inspiration I-III, earth pigments on canvas © p ward 2016
tree (earth pigments on board; 20x20cm) © p ward 2017
friends (earth pigments on canvas; 20x20cm) © p ward 2016
particular I-IV (earth pigments on board) © p ward 2017
cat lane (earth pigments on canvas; 78x78cm) © p ward 2016
four sails (earth pigments on wood and canvas in re-used frame) © p ward 2016
burrows (earth pigments on board) © p ward 2017

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