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I see myself working very much within a land art/ landscape tradition, that is to say in a space for an experiential viewing of the world we live in.
The development of non-representational/abstract painting has allowed painters to go further than the confines of the depiction of the superficial appearance of things. As a result accessing the deep rooted inner landscapes of our consciousness. The paintings on show explore the links between consciousness and our perception of the exterior world. They have developed from an extensive study of the primal view, a non-conceptual view. Investigating the process of thinking as a doubting function that interferes with action. This research has been carried out in a number of diverse cultures including Nepal, India and southern Spain. |
The research is ongoing exploring the universal plastic mediator of land, each landscape being an experiential map of time.
Jonathan Chapman studied at the Ruskin School of Fine Art and Drawing, Oxford, under the direction of the printmaker Jean Lodge. After graduating in 1984 he moved to Andalucia, southern Spain where for the next seven years he continued to paint and sculpt. In 1992 he finished a one year European postgraduate course in painting in Barcelona and Winchester. He exhibits regularly in the UK and abroad. While he works and exhibits in a European context, he still retains stong creative links with his native north Norfolk. |
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