Gordon Jameson
Life
and time are connected and interconnected. The present co-exists with
memory. The Tree of Life is all history, roots and branches growing
into the earth, up and out into the air. The wind moves but is seen
only because it sways the trees, stirs the world. Heaven and Earth
are not defined by their separate pieces but by the totality of all
the intricate relationships between those pieces.
My current work deals with landscape, genesis and interconnectedness.
Landscape derived images begin with a sketch from nature, taking information from foreground and background equally. It’s a way of entering the process of making an image. I work out color and compositional elements in stages sometimes starting with small gouache paintings before moving on to the larger oil paintings.
The change in scale, proportion and material further expands the conversation between the organic forms, color intensities, abstraction of recalled landscape and catharsis.
With the images of people I start with selected family photographs. Working with black and white photos or combining portions of photos from different times allows me to reinterpret them in much the same way as with the landscapes.
I continue to be intrigued by the visual poetry developing in this work.
