Dead leaves (The Yellow Light)

Based on an overexposed photograph taken in a deserted quarry I played in as a child and part of my Wolf Gang series. The painting attempts to capture my childhood nostalgia of this overgrown environment. I wanted to be more expressive in this painting, experimenting with turpentine, taking a considered approach in the choices of marks in, applying layer upon layer of thin washes allowing the paint to bleed into the canvas and add depth in colour to the canvass surface. “Wolf Gang” Steven Ingman's paintings reflect on memories and self discovery influenced by retracing the steps of a former stomping ground. Close to where he grew up a mile down a beaten track hidden behind a wall of hedgerow is a deserted quarry. This forgotten place now overgrown and left to nature's devices, is a mixture of fens, marshes and swamps. The densely compacted trees, abandoned buildings and machinery offer a post apocalyptic landscape yet ironically this place offered a gang of kids an escape from reality. Now through adult eyes, Ingman attempts to understand a place he failed to understand as an adolescent.