Paintings 2007 - 2008

Thinking Nature

Western culture has divided and opposed culture and nature, most often to the destruction and detriment of nature but also with the result of alienating human culture from a creative contact with natural reality.   There are, however, ways in which culture does and can find its way back to nature and it is argued that poetry is a place where culture and nature can meet.    

If for poetry you also read painting, then these works are situated here.

Lucie Winterson’s paintings use her photographs of nature printed onto stretched canvas over which is applied washes and puddles of pigments, tipping, tilting and drying these in such ways as to encourage natural marks such as sedimentation, tide lines and residues of flow.     A new image emerges as three levels of nature interact:   the image of nature as seen and recorded through the camera, the nature in the actions of the materials, and the nature in the artist, her eye and mind.