18.4.2025

Song Dynasty painters would immerse themselves in the landscape and on returning to their studios contemplate the experience before making drawings and paintings from memory. The paintings were deliberately intended not to convey a likeness but instead to evoke the feeling of the experience. After a residency in China in 2015, I have embraced this emotive approach to painting the scenes here. Often I am out of the house early to catch the stillness of the day and the unused air. This is a watercolour with gouache on paper, size 31 x 41cm