Davenport’s visceral oil paintings inhabit the liminal space between the fading past and the emerging future through their colourful invocation of the landscape. Through layered colour, impulsive mark making and refined erasure, the artist brings together the notion of space, conceived as a meditative resting place between the real and the imagined, and the complexities of memory and representation.
The artist’s new series of large-scale oils are conceptually centred on the human experience of relationships. The paintings consider the fragility and intimacy of the landscape and its inextricable relationship to our emotions and memories. The works are abstract expressions of the emotions associated with ‘being in’ the landscape, nurturing a dialogue between internal and external landscapes, eschewing pre-existing ideas of what a ‘landscape’ is, or should be.
