Degree Show on Mars

'Battle of Ownership'

8ft x 5ft 

2020 

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This is my painting that I have produced for our degree show on Mars! My work displays the take over of land and the abusive relationship man has with nature. From a young age I have witnessed the demolition of rural areas. I am fascinated with how nature tries to reclaim the man made through natural processes (such as decay). I try to show this conflict on canvas through a mixed media approach. The photography prints used in my painting are photographs I have taken from my own experience with rural lands, where I have witnessed these conflicts and documented them. The documentation I have is then edited and collaged into my paintings in a way that makes them unrecognisable creating a feeling of uncertainty which is appropriate giving the current circumstances of our environment. I create my paintings large scale so when up next to it the viewer can become engluffed and explore all the layers there is to my work which also helps provoke a sense of history and passing of time.