Martin Laurance

My work is about landscape. I try to go beyond the immediate sensation to something felt and experienced, seeking to find the spirit and inner reality of place. To achieve this I walk and draw using sketchbooks and loose pieces of paper to record sensations, colours, structure and form. Many of my locations are very well known to me and have been walked over and drawn many times over a period of years and in differing seasons. In the studio I use this raw material to create work that is true to the sum of my experience. I work in a variety of mixed media; oil, acrylic, collage, ink, watercolour and gouache, either on their own or in various combinations on paper and canvas. There is no set formula for any piece of work, the choice of materials used and the size is driven solely by what is right for a particular piece.