Artist Focus :: Susan Laughton

Of moor & sky I & II are inspired by the hills and moors of the Peak District that Laughton often walks and drives through. Taking photographs whilst as a passenger in a moving car provides simplified versions of the passing landscape, blurring details and elongating horizons.

" I want to express the sense of travelling to the experience of travelling through a landscape with a panoramic sense of scale and distance. Edges are once as again important as the subject: the light at the end of the day and the silhouette of the hills against the sky. The painting as an object itself also explores edges: using linear elements to frame the view and surface imperfections to bring in details of the physical landscape - stone, mud and weathered wood."