Hannah Eavis
PAINTER
ABOUT HANNAH
My work is concerned with mark making, colour and the process of painting itself. This series of paintings is inspired by the Cornish coastal landscape, I’m drawn to the point where land meets sea. My use of reference is indirect, as the paintings originate from studies, made in part using small collage pieces and mix media. I then work from these studies to create my larger scale works. Some of the marks therefore are incidental or accidental and come out of this process of working. The paintings then, have gone through several stages of reduction, deconstruction and transformation. I take my ideas from primary and secondary sources. In these initial studies I begin to find solutions for shape, depth, colour and structure, all of which go through a further process of transformation during the development of the larger scale pieces. I aim to create an abstract painting that retains a sense of familiarity, thereby pushing the relationship of form and materiality. The soft colours derive from the particular quality of light in this extraordinary coastal landscape. I like to inject small glimpses of richer colours as key notes and focal points and punctuation within the landscape and these might derive perhaps from a blast of radiant yellow of gorse, or a hint of pink from early heather, or perhaps a line of brilliant light on the water.
