Recently I’ve been noticing again the effect of mining and quarrying upon the landscape, and have become aware that the scars left by this, are often capable of projecting some crumbled atmosphere of human greed and exploitation. Ruins also speak of the rise and fall of human lives, of political and social ambition – perhaps even civilisation’s essentially superficial nature?
Determined and varied by the underlying geology and the extremes or weather, different areas in changing lights, can eloquently express a sense of anger or of melancholy and resignation.
While Trehudreth was based upon the traces of mining left on Bodmin Moor, the other five paintings featured here, all have their origin in the North Pennines, where I now live.
The vicissitudes of economics have left these extensive wastelands behind – in the North Pennines, they are mostly abandoned lead workings. But this wounded landscape seems more than capable of rising above its human history.
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Lawrence Freiesleben has exhibited widely, mostly in London, the South West and the North East since 1982, having had more than forty one person exhibitions and numerous group shows at venues including the old Margaret Fisher in Hampstead, the Mermaid Theatre, and the DeMorgan Centre in London; Plymouth City Art Gallery; Alpha House Gallery, Sherborne, Dorset; Dartmoor Gallery, Princetown; The Queens Hall, Edinburgh; Salisbury Playhouse; Buckinghamshire Museum & Art Gallery; Maltby Contemporary Art, Winchester; Walker Gallery, Harrogate; Bridport Open (First Prize in both 1995 and 1998); Maymie White Contemporary Art; Logos, London; Southampton City Art Gallery; The Guildhall, Cambridge; The International Art Fair, Olympia, The Salthouse Gallery, St. Ives; Spacex Gallery, Exeter; Camden and London Group Opens etcetera . . .
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Comment by Lawrence Freiesleben on 3 September, 2015 at 2:41 pm