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Current Exhibition DetailsJohn Crawford - Between Seeing and KnowingThe 13 works on paper for this exhibition draw their inspiration from years of considered observation of that space held between the mountains and the sea under a constant and ever changing sky. There is a space in ones consciousness between seeing and knowing and it is this space that this exhibition sets out to explore.It might be best described as an accumulation of small realities. Seminal starting points for the work are derived from the visual and sensual flotsam of a life spent walking on an abandoned beach along back country roads. These might be the dangerous red of a mushroom growing beneath a stand of whispering pine trees, the curve of a leaf, the dark and deep waters of a remembered fishing hole, a sea worn pebble, the curve in a line left in sand after the action of a wave or attending an English Indian wedding in Regents Park London. It has been my habit to draw each day to collect things and record them in work books. These work books act as a memory bank, a sort of hording of shapes of lines that are later called upon when working. In some respects we are all what we see, what we know, what we do, and in what better way might you know yourself than through making and drawing. - John Crawford – Feb 2009 View more artwork by John Crawford ; "Dangerous Red") ; "Deep") ; "The English Indian Wedding") ; "Sign") ; "Black Stone") ; "Cross") ; "Ball") ; "Leaf") ; "Stone") ; "Sand") ; "Arc") ; "Line") ; "Box") ; "Red Square") |