Rest as a radical act
Very happy to be exhibiting at Raveningham again - I painted a series of deckchairs.
Rest brings nourishment and fires creativity. This series of works on deckchairs uses imagery of the body in repose; bodies abandoned in place, suspended from action. It connotes the way the mind’s activity is suspended in the act of relaxing.
I hope to have produced a continuing relationship between the various images as they are exposed to the elements. The fabric will change, but the deckchairs will provide a framework for images of rest. As they are ‘abandoned’ in the trees the deckchairs can’t be used; they are motionless frames for images of rest. Being placed in a circle, the works communicate, creating a conversation about the art of rest.
The piece captures the refusal enacted when we relax in a deckchair, resting and resisting the pressure to produce. Choosing instead to be restored and nourished.
