Paradise Lost III (from the series 'Our Dark Materials') hypha-marble-arch but it didn’t quite work

but it didn’t quite work

The result is a site-specific meditation on what remains when context is stripped away

Entire sections are deliberately removed

pastel palette of purples

and forests exist side by side

Paradise Lost III (from the series 'Our Dark Materials') hypha-marble-arch but it didn’t quite workParadise Lost III (from the series Our Dark Materials) has emerged from a deeply felt, expressive application of polymer plastic and oil paint. It is third in a series of tondo paintings on board. The round format suggests the experience of viewing through a lens, perhaps that of a microscope, focussing on a fragment from a familiar landscape; or, by contrast, a view of an ancient planetary continent distant in time and space. It is my hope that this