Meg Buick - Dark Garden
Oil, pencil, pastel and varnish on paper,
70 × 50 cm,
2024
Unframed
Oil, pencil, pastel and varnish on paper,
70 × 50 cm,
2024
Unframed
Oil, pencil, pastel and varnish on paper,
70 × 50 cm,
2024
Unframed
My painting is deeply rooted in a daily practice of drawing from life, but they are
always made from memory. I see my work as a continuous dialogue with the
universal human impulse to make images, in which painting the landscape becomes
a way to join an ongoing visual conversation, taking place over millennia. Through
motifs of landscape and the animal/human form, my work explores our collective
memory, and the symbols of the archetypal subconscious . Stylistic references
include ancient Egyptian tomb paintings, prehistoric cave art, paintings from the
early Italian gothic and renaissance era, folk art , and 20th century European
paintings . Through painting from memories, drawings, half-remembered dreams and
art historical references, I attempt to pull at threads which connect us to our ancient
relationship to nature and landscape.
A deep exploration of the natural world has led me to acknowledge the precarious
place we now find ourselves in as a species. The horse and rider motif appears
frequently in my work, as well as the motif of the human figure among trees. These
could be seen as depictions of a kind of lost equilibrium between humans and
animals, and a sense of stewardship towards the natural world which we neglect at
our peril.
Meg Buick
Image for illustration purposes only, artwork supplied unframed
