Fiona Pearson

These two large canvases were made in response to a walk in an early morning light. There was an exceptionally low tide exposing a north facing strand of sand. Land and sea were cool and merged in the silvery light. Through the sky above a single line of geese flew. I was delighted and anxious to retain the moment, I made some small studies.

 

When I speak of painting’ birds’ in space, it is their fleeting dark line that constructs the space. They might be in clouds, but I think of them as in 'ponds broken off from the sky'. I relish that interrupted space made visible by birds.