The Space Between.

"My landscapes have a starting point based on physical landscape however this starting point is changed over time. I paint spontaneously, and intuitively, building up layers over time. This can take months or years until completion. The process is centred around the theme of transformation, colour, light, and form as it changes with time. 
 
‘The Space Between’ is an exploration of the perception or sensation of being submerged or mesmerised by a fleeting moment in time – where time itself seems to be still, there is no wanting to be somewhere else or searching for something different - a sense of wholeness. In contrast to the everyday experience of the mind. Time and mind seem to be suspended like a void, where a moment of unexplained 'bliss' or happiness for no apparent reason, like walking in nature becomes the source of inspiration.
 
Based on this idea, (while) the painting process itself is in a transformed state from what was seen and felt, the focus is shifted and the feeling itself becomes the inspiration. Like a web that connects everything. It is timeless. Ever present while inspired by this sense of bliss that opens an expanded enhanced sense of something magical between the spaces of reality."

It is the space between the observer and the observed. Between the landscape and the feeling of the experience of being moved, or shifted by a sense of wonder.”

– Robert Selkirk