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above: All Quiet on the Western Front - in Flanders Fields

”I ended up hanging three paintings - two from a recent exhibition and a third new one. The
new one, ‘All Quiet on the Western Front - In Flanders Fields’, was based on the poem ‘In
Flanders Fields’.

It references the rows of crosses and poppies between and the rows of a ploughed field. The
rhyme scheme is reflected by the change of reds used for the rows, one of which is a chlorine
gas green separating the first nine lines from the last six. I used soil mixed with the paint for
the bottom half of the work as the majority of my paintings are tied to the landscape in some
way and to reference the mud bath that was the trenches. The top half is a lighter ephemeral
space.”