No Way Out
By Victoria Stanway
About this art
Genre: Urban
Medium: Painting
Size: 100.00cm x 127.00cm
Year: 2003
A doodle I made whilst bored at work on a post-it note evolved into my main body of work entitled Landscapes of the Mind.
Most of the series of surreal, cubist, mindscape paintings, have been sold to private collectors.
These contemporary and modern landscape paintings fuse a mixture of different references. Distinctive and unique in style, this series of work has been drawn from the imagination and memories of my childhood.
I grew up in Nelson, Lancashire, an economy that was dependent on the cotton mills, where virtually all my relatives worked at some stage in their lives. Geographically developed in a basin, the rows of back to back terraced houses were built on the steep hills and troughs, squeezing as many into the available space. As a child, walking home from school, we weaved our way home through the maze of back streets, mill yards and industrial wastelands.
This series of work attempts to express these memories. The claustrophobic space of the terraces, strange things lurking in the cobbled back streets. Retreating to the luminous and expansive countryside only to find other unsettling experiences.
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Rated 9 by Ruskin Don | 28/08/2008
"Loved the intricacy and intwined shapes very striking,the holistc way the work ivolded is very similer to how i work , brilliant stuff"
A Problem With Belonging
2006 | Average rating: N/A
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