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Marsden Hammant
It is not just a question of what I see - though of course that
comes into it. Rather my work is about making permanent an experience
of landscape - building structural tensions which hopefully
will remain true. This may happen, rarely, while working in
the landscape, but more often, in the studio after prolonged
reworking of the image.’
Marsden Hammant makes landscapes. Autobiography and the fragmentary
nature of memory provide the basis for painting, drawing and
collage. Images are reworked in a range of materials, so that
enclosures, spaces and forms are given intrinsic value as true
metaphors of the rural landscape he takes as his starting point.
These memorable images do not invite us to observe the landscape,
but rather, they insist that we experience it as something internal
and felt. A sense of an aerial perspective is nicely contradicted
by the rawness and immediacy of mark and texture, qualities
that evoke more tangible sensory memories: the rhythm of treading
across a field, the brilliance of colour in changing light.
Enclosure is a recurring motif-so that boundaries and edges
become critical. Themes are abandoned for months and sometimes
years, and re-emerge, as further possibilities of dialogue between
the work and the artist present themselves.
A prizewinner in the University of Hertfordshire Open in 2000,
this is Marsden’s first solo show for some years. Fovea
is delighted to have the privilege of hosting it.
T: 020 8357 2924 or visit: www.foveagallery.co.uk
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'Fields'
Charcoal and pastel on paper
1999 |
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'Yellow
Field'
Acrylic on paper
11.75 x 8.5 inches
2000/01 |
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'Untitled'
Paper collage
1999 |
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