Mark Thompson
Artist Statement
Essentially I make paintings that deal with the landscapes of the far North; places of inhospitable climate and geography. In the hope of glimpsing a certain image of a place, a landscape that is internal to me, but never wholly within my grasp, I have travelled extensively, and alone, to Iceland, sub-arctic Scandinavia and Alaska. The work is, in a sense, an excavation of these experiences-watching a storm building as I descend a glacier, knowing it will be a matter of minutes before I am drenched to the skin; tracing paths of rivers across tundra, feeling my boots punching through frozen crusts of snow. The work, however, is made at a distance from this, filtered by memory. As such, the paintings are in part a reconstruction of what I have seen, in part a discovery of the ideal I am searching for.
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