During this period the focus of my work shifted from still-life to landscape. Initially objects were pictured in relation to ever-expanding spaces, until the space of the landscape and the forms of nature began to fill the pictorial field. Along with the change of subject came a change in materials and working methods: from painting to drawing. Texts also began to re-appear in my work \u2013 something that hadn\u2019t been evident in the still-life paintings. I\u2019ve chosen the following selection of examples to show how this change of focus and method happened.<\/p>\n

$\"Signature$ <\/a>Signature of All Things II<\/em> July-Sept 1995 Oil on prepared paper 36 x 48 ins<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n\n \n $\"Twig$ <\/a>Twig and stones<\/em> c1995-96 Oil on board 24 x 36 ins<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n\n \n $\"Nature$ <\/a>Nature study<\/em> c1996 Oil on prepared paper 36 x 48 ins<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n\n \n $\"Duryard$ <\/a>Duryard study<\/em> c1996 Mixed media on board 36 x 48 ins<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n\n \n $\"Woodland$ <\/a>Woodland birdsong<\/em> c1996 Acrylic and emulsion on board 24 x 36 ins<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n\n \n $\"Skull$ <\/a>Skull and Trees<\/em> June 1996 Graphite, acrylic, emulsion on board 24 x 18 ins<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n\n \n $\"The$ <\/a>The Way Things Are<\/em> May-June 1998 Mixed media 36 x 40 ins<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n\n \n $\"The$ <\/a>The Way Things Are<\/em> May-June 1998 – detail lower right<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n\n \n $\"Landscape$ <\/a>Landscape study<\/em> c1997 Mixed media 30 x 36 ins<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n\n \n $\"Hawthorn$ <\/a>Hawthorn and rocks<\/em> April 1998 Mixed media<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n A few of the works from this time have a more abstract geometrical structure underlying the composition of organic forms.<\/p>\n \n \n $\"Iris$ <\/a>Iris<\/em> January 1996 Mixed media on board 36 x 48 ins<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n \n \n \n $\"As$ <\/a>As if it could have been<\/em> Feb 1996 Mixed media on board 48 x 36 ins<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During this period the focus of my work shifted from still-life to landscape. Initially objects were pictured in relation to ever-expanding spaces, until the space of the landscape and the forms of nature began to fill the pictorial field. Along … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":300,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.johndanversart.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1140"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.johndanversart.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.johndanversart.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.johndanversart.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.johndanversart.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/archive.johndanversart.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1244,"href":"http:\/\/archive.johndanversart.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1140\/revisions\/1244"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.johndanversart.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.johndanversart.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}