Landscapes
I became fascinated with a derelict quarry site close to my Hertfordshire studio about five years ago. The immense size of the abandoned buildings spoke of huge industrial power but they stood broken and idle; grass and sapling trees grew from machine parts and discarded junk. My paintings explore these themes contemplating the monumental scale of the buildings against the landscape; the substance of decay and neglect – a location where it has become acceptable to discard unwanted histories.
The broken machines are suggestive of action now stopped and abandoned, the air of sudden endings and things left unsaid and undone.