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Lucie Winterson

Country of residence United Kingdom

Lucie Winterson studied at Central St Martins, Krakow and Winchester Schools in Barcelona. She is working with themes of Nature looking at ways in which we relate to Nature with today’s sensibility and vision.

“But to the Eyes of the Man of Imagination, Nature is Imagination itself” William Blake

Western culture has divided and opposed culture and nature, most often to the destruction and detriment of nature but also with the result of alienating human culture from a creative contact with natural reality. There are, however, ways in which culture does and can find its way back to nature and it is argued that poetry is a place where culture and nature can meet.

If for poetry you also read painting, then the work of Lucie Winterson is situated here.

“I think of poetry or poetics as a way of relating to nature that does not subordinate it to an idea or a set of rules, but which attempts to find a way and a language which engages and interacts with the actual presence of nature.”

Paintings - Three Natures

Lucie Winterson’s paintings use her photographs of nature printed onto stretched canvas over which is applied washes and puddles of pigments, tipping, tilting and drying these in such ways as to encourage natural marks such as sedimentation, tide lines and residues of flow. A new image emerges as three levels of nature interact: the image of nature as seen and recorded through the camera, the nature in the actions of the materials, and the nature in the artist, her eye and mind.

Photographs - Paintings in Sand

The photographs are taken on beaches in remote places. The paintings are made in the sand with chinese ink and then photographed in sequence as they are acted on by nature.

Exhibitions '00 Nature Part 1, 10.Apr - 15.May.08, Contemporary Art Projects

 

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