This series of artworks draws from the tradition of artists who create works from their experiences whilst out walking or for whom walking is their art. During my walk into work I seek out and photograph the seemingly unremarkable or unregarded aspects of the city.

In a similar vain to Japanese depictions of nature I like to find harmony in my urban world, where the wildness and delicacy of nature coexists with the hard and orderliness of the manmade, manhole covers, bricks and tensile wire.

My route is the same but each journey I make changes through direct sensory engagement with the environment. I can be aware of the leafless trees on a cold frosty morning, autumn leaves pressed into manhole covers on a rain sodden street, or the emergence of buds on the cherry trees on a sunny spring afternoon.

The panels are 100mm by 100m steel mounted onto MDF. The images are created with wet process enamel and ceramic digital transfers which undergo several firings.

Working with the layering of enamel allows me to build the image though repeated coats of black and white and with layers of pattern and drawing. The process of drawing into, overlaying and then stoning back reflect the changes in balance I observes in my walks. I am fascinated with the degree of control I can exercise in building an image and how it can be enhanced or lost with the unpredictably of firing process.

 

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