23.23 x 29.92ins (59 x 76cm) (framed size)
‘I have tried to paint landscapes which are lost; they don’t exist, and so they all seem to be relaxing, unburdened of the responsibility to have much to do with our world. What is left are places whose parts develop into a mystery of their own. I also use some pictures to express the after-math of people; when we have all dropped off the face of the world and the moral story is over, what is left?
Some pictures, such as in ‘Odysseus’ are fictional places left behind after the story has been told. As I painted them, I found myself thinking over and over again about a chapter from TH White’s The Sword in the Stone where, travelling at thirty years per minute, one can see the sentience of the trees as they dance across the landscape.’
Samuel Kirk, 2022
