SENSING PLACE

A collection of ‘place palettes’, sketchbooks and paintings made along the Jurassic coastline over the last 20 years.

Sensing Place focuses on processes involved in the evolution of work. Examples of ‘place palettes’ and sketchbooks are seen alongside paintings… all are made outside in coastal locations using found earths, clays, organic matter and man-made materials like litter. Palettes become portraits of place that inform paintings…but they are independent of them. Working outside and combining these found materials with water-based media, such as watercolour, acrylic and gouache,  allows the weather – rain, snow, humidity, wind, sun – to participate in the shaping of the work.

Infused with the geology of each place, traces of weather, circumstance and happenstance, the palettes and paintings are witness to and a record of time spent with the ever-changing Jurassic coast.