LITTER IS EVERYWHERE WE LOOK. I began this project as a response to the amount of rubbish we all see everywhere in the UK countryside. We both see it and don’t see it; it’s both visible and invisible.
Themes of visibility and invisibility run throughout my work as an artist, since the silhouette itself frequently indicates a person who is both there and not there. For this reason it struck me as a potent symbol.
I began by taking photographs of the rubbish I saw when out walking or cycling (itself a conscious act of seeing). I then digitally combined some of these photos with some of my earlier landscape oil studies, each places inside a silhouette.
My intention was to make a statement about the human-influence landscape we all live in, by combining a human profile with a painted image of the landscape and photographs of the rubbish within it.
Each image is available as a signed, limited-edition giclée print.
