Hannah Murgatroyd
www.hannahmurgatroyd.com
@hannah_murgatroyd
Statement:
I painted Verdell using the colours and marks of a verdant, hushed world located in the imagination, inspired by memories of green forests in Dartmoor and Malaysia. Dragonfly is of a similar point of compass but contains a small figure, surrounded by makeshift shelters clinging to cliffs. As I age, I become more convinced of the deep power of the natural world and the human body. Despite it all, each finds a way to endure in a way that can bring light to existence. These past few years figures have ceded prominence in my painting to landscape and spaces, and I have looked deeper, seeking to uncover the sensations of mark, light and colour that lead me toward painting’s potential for reverie, revelation and respite. I see myself painting in an island space for the imagination, and my paintings as platforms for holding ideas, propelled by thoughts around an architecture of the gaze. Of the human looking upon landscape and the city, of looking inward, of defining physical and emotional spaces to worship the tangible and intangible. Ancient, modern, and, yet-to-exist, a continual process of construction and dissolve.
www.hannahmurgatroyd.com
@hannah_murgatroyd
Statement:
I painted Verdell using the colours and marks of a verdant, hushed world located in the imagination, inspired by memories of green forests in Dartmoor and Malaysia. Dragonfly is of a similar point of compass but contains a small figure, surrounded by makeshift shelters clinging to cliffs. As I age, I become more convinced of the deep power of the natural world and the human body. Despite it all, each finds a way to endure in a way that can bring light to existence. These past few years figures have ceded prominence in my painting to landscape and spaces, and I have looked deeper, seeking to uncover the sensations of mark, light and colour that lead me toward painting’s potential for reverie, revelation and respite. I see myself painting in an island space for the imagination, and my paintings as platforms for holding ideas, propelled by thoughts around an architecture of the gaze. Of the human looking upon landscape and the city, of looking inward, of defining physical and emotional spaces to worship the tangible and intangible. Ancient, modern, and, yet-to-exist, a continual process of construction and dissolve.
Dragonfly
170 x 200cm
Oil on canvas
2021-2022
170 x 200cm
Oil on canvas
2021-2022