martin laurance
Norwich
My work is about landscape. I try to go beyond the immediate sensation to
something felt and experienced, seeking to find the spirit and inner reality of
place. To achieve this I walk and draw using sketchbooks and loose pieces of
paper to record sensations, colours, structure and form. Many of my locations
are very well known to me and have been walked over and drawn many times over a
period of years and in differing seasons. In the studio I use this raw material
to create work that is true to the sum of my experience. I work in a variety of
mixed media; oil, acrylic, collage, ink, watercolour and gouache, either on
their own or in various combinations on paper and canvas. There is no set
formula for any piece of work, the choice of materials used and the size is
driven solely by what is right for a particular piece.
