Kirchberg is a remembered landscape rather than a depicted one. I painted this small, Austrian chapel from memory, allowing the uncertainty of recollection to shape the image. The chapel remains relatively distinct, rising vertically from a landscape that seems to dissolve around it. The cross becomes a point of stillness within this shifting field of colour.
There is no precise geography. The greens & yellows suggest the way memory preserves certain colours, gestures and sensations while allowing other details to disappear.
The chapel was a favourite place of mine and represents something enduring within that process of forgetting: a place, a moment, perhaps a feeling, that remains when the surrounding landscape has become uncertain. The painting is an attempt to remember not what the place looked like, but what remains of it in my mind.
Born in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England. Studied Life Drawing at
Richmond College of Art, London. Studied Illustration at Twickenham College of
Technology, Surrey. Studied Fine Art at Epsom School of Art & Design, Surrey.
Studied Fine Art under Maria Lassnig at the Hochschule für Angewandtekunst,
Vienna. Worked also as an illustrator & author with 29 internationally published children’s books. Now reside in the Blue Mountains, NSW
