I am first and foremost a landscape painter. Incurably influenced by my years in Connemara, I love to walk the Penwith coastline and stop to sketch whatever captures my interest and triggers my imagination. I am fascinated by what is elusive and ephemeral in the landscape and what is eternal and solid.
My work reflects the textures and rhythms of the two and the tension between them. It is the visual expression of my attempt to understand the essence of the landscape, its male and female elements, its timelessness and its sense of history and the ancient. The female figure usually appears as an integral part of my landscapes reflecting the affinity between us humans and nature and my own personal exploration of the Mother Earth theme, the ever precarious balance of hard and soft, intellectual and emotional, assertive and compliant, male and female in our own nature. There is often a sense of urgency in my work caused by my need to process impressions immediately, the impact as little as possible diluted by time.
The actual procedure of producing my work is my main focus, the meditative process of dealing with the subject matter a valued time of contemplation. I will lose myself in the building up and scraping away of layers, using a variety of media, to develop my version of a weathered rock face or a winter sky.
I like a distinct drawing to support my paintings and I use line to express energy and movement.
In printmaking I like to work with "soft" plates as in monoprinting and collagraphs.
doris lindemann
Exhibition at the Glasshouse Gallery
7TH - 30TH APRIL 2007
THE GLASS HOUSE
HOSTS THE GAOLYARD