55 x 65 cm | 21 x 25 in
Subject: Landscapes & Nature
Tags:
Forest,
Green,
Grass,
Gentle,
Clearing
Original painting in oil on canvas.
"I've always really loved the idea that a place can be imbued with acts that have been carried out in them, like holding a memory - and that if we as strangers chance upon this place we will know instinctively that something has happened here, although an absurd idea, I love the romance of it, and I see it revisited throughout literature and art again and again - this is a painting is a quiet monument to the possibility of this concept."
Sophie Baker’s paintings track the internal, felt dimension of landscape - holding close to the visual field while letting something stranger press through. Paths appear, then blur. Figures are latent or occluded. A spider’s web reads as architectural, devotional. The eye keeps circling. Visually, the works seem to resist forward motion: no clear vanishing point, no directional pull - an evocative felt sense of recursive presence. Each work evokes a state of being - of crossing, shelter, entanglement.