Megan:
My work is a meditation on the miniscule and overlooked beauty in the everyday landscape around us. I like to take a magnifying glass to the world to unveil the intricacies which are often passed by in our daily lives. This requires a different pace of life, one of slowing down and observing closely and carefully, a practice which I hope the work will encourage people to take part in. I hope to ignite a reverence for the beauty which can be found in small corners of the world.
I am inspired by the Japanese ukiyo-e works and take inspiration from these, capturing scenes which are full of both movement and stillness.
This body of work considers this juxtaposition of stillness and motion in nature. When the world seems to accelerate faster than we can comprehend, we reside in the notion that things can only be dealt with moment by moment. Just like observing a body of water, it is both fast and slow, moving and still, and has a distinct body and form yet is fluid and perpetually passing through.’
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Ian:
On one level I am interested in the paint, in how the qualities of the different pigments and mediums behave on the paper, and in the physicality and transparency of it. On another level there has always been an attempt to find a balance between a structure and leaving space for unplanned things to happen, to follow a thread and to be guided somewhere new. I am fascinated by the fact that the same motifs reappear again and again, when I am not expecting them. I think there is also an instinct to allow mess but keep control of it somehow.
I was intrigued by Megan’s work when we briefly shared a studio. We kept in touch after being separated by Covid, and decided to reunite to look at the work side by side again
In showing these pictures together, it seems that we both have an interest in making paintings that balance calm and clarity with movement and energy.