Mark Godwin - Landscape

All of the paintings included in this collection cover a broad range of subjects. From small sketchy depictions of enclosed alleyways, to the broader more heavily worked open vista across the countryside. But on closer inspection these are not your typical scenic views.

Clearly they are all landscapes, but this general subject of landscape is really a framework or structure on which to hang the real theme, which is painting itself. There is a looseness and joy in the brushwork, and handling of paint, that has the confidence to sacrifice the subject at times in favour of the surface of the painting. Some of these paintings have an almost abstract quality about them, but I hope they never fully loose a sense of mood, or place. I trust too that these paintings carry a sense of optimism about them.

The smaller paintings have the same serious intent as the larger works. Although they often act as the starting point for larger works, they are meant as complete finished works in themselves.

Mark Godwin 2011