I have been painting professionally for over twenty five years. I am based in London UK, in an industrial studio housed in an old paper bag/packaging factory. I use oil paint and loose pigment dust to create three dimensional paintings which have the illusion of an other worldly landscape. The force that drives my work is an intention to create paintings which allude to a sensory experience of ‘place’. Generally that ‘place’ will exist in the real world, and sometimes it will exist within the possibilities of painting. It is always specific, there is a search within the work for something that is recognised through experience. It is a search for learning but also for familiarity.
These are monuments of personal experience..moments in time..an attempt to trap an incidence or an experience.
Recently the work has been focused on the depiction of a horizon line.. and asks various questions about scale. Often this will appear with reference to a landscape space and similarities will be drawn with a landing strip or a ploughed field, a landscape carved by man, or a trail left by an animal or insect or even an aerial view.
-Melanie Comber
