ROBERT PEEL                             

In the continuous framework of experience over time, the past and present find their equivalents in a working process, where a kind of alchemy takes place.

My earliest memories as a child are of quiet, solitary adventures, exploring the tracks and contours of the Downs, absorbing and mapping the landscape. Below the Downs, the harbour and its industry provided a dramatic backcloth for adventure, contemplation and wonderment.Later, Shell posters, Bruegel prints and Giles cartoons initiated me into the idea of narrative,
and a growing appreciation of the images and experiences that for whatever reason, profoundly affect me.

These landscapes come from a process of sampling some of the connected and unconnected thoughts and experiences one has at any time, consciously and otherwise.My interest is to produce an expression of an event, place or object, not an illustration of it. 
In the context of a working method that brings together print technologies and other applications, selecting leaves much to chance. By accepting the vagaries of the process I’m released from the certainty of the managed mark, the calculated line, the perfect surface.

“The working process is ideally, freeing my mind I am mistrustful of ideas because they are necessarily based on information that you already know”. Rauschenberg

Image shown:  Lunar Landscape  75 x 55cm  on  Fabriana Artistico