intimate expanse
The Romantic landscapes of the series entitled intimate expanse are a contemplation of Nature as both an allegory and object of inquiry, revealed and obscured by light, distance and darkness.
Ever present in the dramatic portrayals of Nature is a sense of duality, echoing the ancient tension between the rational and the emotional, between the physical and the transcendent. The often obscured horizon deliberately placed disquietingly near the centre of each painting become the focus and expression of this tension and, when juxtaposed with the more immediate landscape, acts to simultaneously anchor and diminish the sense of distance.