Amberley Series: 100 Panel Paintings 10/2002 (Cv/VAR Folio)

"The Landscape Series" of 2002 to 2006 was made in quantities of thirty to one hundred 1' square panels, each of the thirty sets generally taking three weeks to complete. The panels were worked on flat, painting eighteen at a time in fifteen minute bursts. They were laid out on an old framed 6' x 3' piece which also served as a container for the pools of colour washed over the textured surface. Two inch square wooden cubes were used to stack the paintings in small towers to dry out. Various factors steered the series development: there was reference to an initial colour plan, thoughts about the load-bearing pressures on a place, tracks and crossing points, airflow, water, spaces and intervals, the nature of settlement in the land. "The Amberley Series: 80 Panel Paintings 10/2002" evoke the intimate scenery of West Sussex; the strings of small hamlets and the range of the South Downs, an area the artist has worked from since 1967.