Mark Spray - The Final Pilgrim
Reuben Colley Fine Arts
14th May 2013 - 6th June 2013
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Mark Spray is an artist with a profound empathy for landscape. Distinct from the work of landscape artists whose focus is primarily visual, Spray’s work speaks of an altogether more conflicted and raw relationship with the land. Expressing instead a sensory and psychological experience of ‘place’, this collection of moody, dark and deeply textured paintings are at once strangely hypnotic and menacingly bleak. Known for a multifaceted approach to his work, Spray orders his artistic life into a series of long running projects, the course of which he allows to develop unhindered from their beginning. Often taking several years from start to completion, Spray describes the influences on his extended projects as ‘constantly evolving’.
Concerned with ideas of circularity between the external and internal, and developing a creative dialogue between experience of landscape and expression of self, a vital part of Spray’s intensely applied artistic discipline includes a unique approach to his studio practice: intending to evoke the internal essence of ‘place’, A Final Pilgrim’s mixed media works are composed of oil paints and a wealth of natural materials collected from, and thus dictated by, the landscape in which he is working. Spray even sketches his landscapes with charcoal made from the wood he finds on site.
