Looking at Looking at Landscape exhibition - Pat Harvey
Pat explained a little about some of her new work for the exhibition:
"Particular Place is set at a reservoir on the moors above Eldwick and the idea is about looking at landscape using painterly effects. Common levels are stone, water, driftwood, the moors and the sky above. There are missing pieces as you can leave out bits and just have glimpses of the elements. It features specific pieces of driftwood found on the edges of the reservoir, some of which had been charred by a bonfire.
I saw some strikingly beautiful photographs accompanying a really alarming article called Eating the Amazon and I based the pastel print on this. The huge soya fields in the Amazon are an environmental disaster, destroying the rainforest, but the patterns they create look amazing from above, as can all sorts of toxic things like chemical plants.
I did a series of monoprints based on how beautiful alarming things look from a distance, showing planting patterns which are imagined but based on aerial photographs. They are neatly split as they are often cut by a road running through them.”