100 x 150 cm | 39 x 59 in
Subject: Landscapes & Nature
Tags:
River,
House,
Boat,
Green,
Island
Original painting in oil on canvas.
Original painting in oil on canvas.
"When the water slips back out to see the boats settle again on the muddy river banks, planks and ropes discarded reveal themselves again and these little floating islands rejoin the land. I love the cycle of floating and resting that these boats constantly rotate between. Going from tugging at their stays as unreachable islands to revealing their beached hulks is a magical process, one I've tried to capture here in it's transitional phase."
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.