“EDGELANDS” Denise Campbell

Island landscapes, the closeness to the sea and its edges, journeys and vessels and the confluence of built environments, spaces now devoid of any human presence, have always been important elements for work.

Legacies of exclusion can result in a unique landscape amongst the slowly decaying and rusting machinery and structures. The min disassembles a landscape and then re-assembles the pieces constructing images from many small parts.

In the most recent series of paintings and prints (loosely based around the central highlands) collage and mixed media are used instinctively, making images that pull in and out of focus the small details and the broader views; shifting light, subtle nuances of colour, marks blurred and vanishing, fleeting perceptions and visual sensations.

Gathering together aspects that are folded in; new appears to be layered on old and where surfaces are scratched or scarred, a hidden history is revealed before reaching their final recognizable or abstract forms.

Denise Campbell

December 2024