Gordon Dalton
www.gordondalton.website
@gordondalton666
Statement:
I’m trying to make the viewer look longer and harder, to have a one on relationship with landscape painting, to make them curious and find some joy. The places depicted in my work are partly an invention, full of contrasts and spontaneity. They combine memories and motifs of places I have lived or longingly imagined, an idea of a place and the melancholy of longing and wanting to belong. An unfashionable romanticism grounded in the act of painting.
I was particularly interested in the the as my current work is directly focused on the sea and coastline. The tide comes in and the tide goes out, seemingly unchanged yet it is is a constant state of change, especially with environmental concerns. It also seems a pertinent metaphor for our turbulent political landscape.
www.gordondalton.website
@gordondalton666
Statement:
I’m trying to make the viewer look longer and harder, to have a one on relationship with landscape painting, to make them curious and find some joy. The places depicted in my work are partly an invention, full of contrasts and spontaneity. They combine memories and motifs of places I have lived or longingly imagined, an idea of a place and the melancholy of longing and wanting to belong. An unfashionable romanticism grounded in the act of painting.
I was particularly interested in the the as my current work is directly focused on the sea and coastline. The tide comes in and the tide goes out, seemingly unchanged yet it is is a constant state of change, especially with environmental concerns. It also seems a pertinent metaphor for our turbulent political landscape.
See, My Days Are So Cold Without You
160 x 220cm
Acrylic on unstretched canvas
2022
160 x 220cm
Acrylic on unstretched canvas
2022