"The work for this exhibition has been created over a number of years. Each painting is a response expressing my feelings for the land and each is of a particular time and mood. In some, I aim for stillness and in others for vitality and immediacy where I employ more gestural mark making.
My great love in talking about the land is consideration of the use of colour and its resonance with the colour beside it. So too is consideration for the patterns of the land.
My connection with the Alpine country brings awareness both of its lyricism and its strength. The subject and notably the use of space vary over the period these works were painted. During the pandemic the subject of trees along the Rail Trail have been treated as a flat pattern with little space for the eye to travel. In reverting to a use of deeper space in later paintings, evolution in artistic process is evident but most importantly is a singular insight into my connection to the land which powerfully beguiles me."
Deirdre Jack
Image: Deirdre Jack, Basalt Mountain #2 Maharashtra, Oil on canvas
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