ianwarburton

morning. oil on paper 78x65cms garden. oil on canvas 100x100cms Salabert morning ( pink cloud ) oil on canvas 120 x90cms These three paintings seem to be unalike and yet they are worked with the same intention, that of trying to paint what I think about the light and the space. Feeling and seeing are entwined: are we seeing what we feel or feeling what we see ? I have two books to recommend. The first is by Christopher Neeve. Unquiet Landscape Thames and Hudson which is adjudged to be a journey through the imagination of artists in relation to the English landscape. I was lent a copy some time ago by a very good friend and it has taken me until now to obtain my own. The second is Landscape Painting Now, by Barry Swabsky, also T and H. If the thinking is that landscape painting is of little interest then both of these publications ought to challenge that.  

oil on canvas. 160x 120cms oil on canvas. 120x120cms  My body is entangled within all that I experience:whereforeI believed in believing, I see. My belief is part and parcel of my visual experience and therefore, in order to believe more, I need to see more and to see more completely. Information has come to us via, firstly, an oral tradition and subsequently, much to Plato's distrust, a literary one. Now we are experiencing stories visually and the world is seemingly knowable instantly. Where is the mechanism by which we recognise deception, what tools do we use to avoid manipulation and where is the boundary between truth and lies? How do I, through marks and through colour convey my experience of seeing and make, not an alternative fact, but a truth that is verifiable. That verifiable experience that leads me to see what I feel?