£650

Original painting, acrylic on cardboard and wood panel, framed in solid oak, 33cm x 45.5cm 
Artist James D Wilson visited for a residency back in 2023. His works explore the relationship  between abstraction and memory, and his approach always starts with a series of drawings. Whether these are observational field notes or from memories of time spent in a place, they have a provisional feeling to them, as though glimpsed whilst on the move. He uses flashes of colour and  minimal mark-making to make visual phrases, often cutting and re-assembling them in unexpected ways through collage. The compositions that emerge from this process, even in their fragmented  state, retain a sense of the places that inspired them. After a period of immersion, with this research material pinned to the studio wall, intuition plays its part in deciding how to develop it.   

Something about these paintings feels deeply rooted in the patchwork of hills we call home.