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janine baldwin

My art is born from a lifelong affinity with the landscape. From my earliest memories as a child, the natural environment has played an integral part in my life, and together with constant exposure as an adult to woodland, moors and coast, this kinship inspires my work today. It is not dependant on geographical location, but inherent to who I am as a person.

To the viewer I present a visually ambiguous image - often with both land and sea combined in the same painting - yet with enough associations of colour and form to invite different interpretations from each individual, based on their own experiences and memories of the landscape. A fresh green may remind them of new foliage in springtime, a round shape may recall pebbles smoothed by the waves. My interest lays not in expressing a literal representation of land and sea, but rather something of the physical sensory experience.

I use a gradual layering of colour, form and line to create my work, and oilbars are often used to bridge the gap between drawing and painting. I paint in an intuitive and visceral manner to some degree, but the marks made in spontaneity are then assessed again and again, according to more traditional laws of composition and colour balance. The image evolves as elements of previous layers of paint are omitted, or salvaged and re-worked. This method of overlapping was originally inspired by the Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning, whose work I greatly admire, but it quickly became intrinsic to my work. I feel it is also my way of responding to the transient, media-saturated culture we live in, from which we often absorb only partial imagery (and some is taken subconsciously). The result is a vibrant, rich (both aesthetically and texturally) and completely unique image.

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