Celia Hempton

'Tyre Piles' and 'River Mouth' (2008)

Celia’s landscape observations are influenced by visiting remote building sites, roadsides and disused canals, putting herself in potentially dangerous situations. These places have evidence of a human presence, however they seem uninhabitable and unpopulated, which evokes a sense of loneliness and absurdity in her paintings.

Drawings are made on site and brought into the studio, where in a more reflective environment she can become intuitively involved in making a painterly response to the psychological.