Leaving the lighted shore – Clare Logan
In panels of instinctually poured oil paint on board and flowing ink and other media on paper Clare Logan traverses the embodied, emotive and dreamt experiences of nature. Through this process, the artist gives form to impressions of flux and fluctuation of the world.
Logan invites mystery and serendipity through her abstractions. She creates spaces that echo the thresholds of material and psychic realms. Shadowy depths intertwine misty arcs, surging and pooling in thoughtful contrasts, like dreams to submerge and swim in.
It’s been swimming into my awareness that making these works in the way that I do and going out into the mountains – having embodied physical experiences of engaging with the land – it’s like a way of trying to understand the nature of things. Going out into the hills I engage with this wider body of ecological systems and geological processes, as a body, and it brings me into an observant, experiential stance.
— Clare Logan, 2024
Click here to read more about this body of work in our City Art Reader interview with Clare Logan.
