Force of Sunlight. 2025

PAINTING AND COLLAGE

PRIMARY LANDSCAPE CATALOGUE  here

FULL PAINTING CATALOGUE here

Works on paper as reconstructions of the experience of landscape in watercolour collage, ink and pencil. 


PRIMARY. The first glimpse of something before you have worked it out, before you know it, before the words, before the abstraction even, which is, after all, when you dismantle it... after.

Primary colours. Primary, as in the simplicity.

Primary School even. The basics of language of landscape identifying the primary forces of mass, form, perspective, colour, shade, circumstance and balance in space.

For a while now, I have been working equally in both photography and abstract applied work.

Always in the realm of landscape, I am interested in the literal, realistic nature of the large format colour photograph against the often wordless capacity of the abstract paintings and reliefs.

In this series 'Primary Landscape', I hope to concentrate the absolute basics of what might make up our British Isles landscape experience. For the most part, I have relied on a long-term knowledge of this once estuarine landscape where I live.

More and more, I rely on a particular place just outside of our village where the ruins of a friary sit on one shore of what was once a tidal lagoon, and a church that sits on the other. These two entities and all the rich, unknowable history of interaction they provide offer me fertile ground to conjure up aspects of landscape, both real and imagined.

The marks are all simple, of course, and though I have no need to identify any of them particularly, you will see glimpses of the sea, rivers, valleys, a church or two, the sky, reflections, fields, hedges and planetary action. These are the basics. This is Primary Landscape.

HARRY CORY WRIGHT 2025

I find it hard to do these watercolours ‘en plein air’. That seems to me to be the role of the big camera.

These therefore are all imaginings of this once estuarine landscape where I live.
Motifs representing the fundamentals of landscape; land, sky, water, tree and horizon with all the tones, compositions and relationships therein.