Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery

If there's something that binds my pictures together it would be light.

In almost every piece, I'm chasing after the light as it passes over surfaces and planes and empty space. In doing so, I'm attempting to articulate simple statements about beauty which have a tranquil potency and that are truthful.

I'm interested in light, sometimes in the most mundane way. The physical world we move through is wholly described by intensities of darkness and light- it's all around us, omnipresent and unresolved in a constant cycle of adjustment, casting shadow, adding brilliance and generating reflection. This same darkness and light exists inside us as well; the perpetual puzzle of reconciling the love, fear, joy, resentment and tenderness that washes around inseparably within us, as we inhabit the everyday.

These disordered layers of ourselves are forever in motion, grasping for a foothold. And sometimes, in this midst of this interminable struggle, there is an inexplicable pause and we are thrown clear into a small corner of time where the labyrinth of competing forces are all at once, taut and perfectly balanced. Only later after it has passed, are we aware of the unbridled strength and beauty that was revealed during that sublime moment and we realize in hindsight that for an instant, we briefly glimpsed something of the truth. The art I respond to most directly conjures up the sense of this moment; it is also what I am seeking for myself when I'm in the studio making my own work.’