Katy English
I divide my time between Cushendun, a small village on the North East coast of Ireland and London and my work consistently refers to the Antrim landscape, using drawing to investigate the natural world both seen and unseen. In an age where images can be instantly captured and transmitted I draw to slow down the act of seeing and allow the covert forces of growth and mathematics to reveal themselves.
The work explores patterns, forms and recurrences in nature. There is an extraordinary economy in the way that successful systems manifest form at all scales of the physical world, whether it be synaptic links and cosmic nebula or the compound lens of a flies eye and the geometry of the Giants Causeway. Through various media and processes much of my work is involved with exploring these systems or creating alternatives. My imagery moves freely from representational to abstract moving between atomic to cosmic. Where and how the I (eye) fits in to the vast abundance of time and space may be at the route of everything I make.
Over many years of working with children I have been influenced by the straightforward methods of communication they employ in their drawing, in some ways similar to the language of scientific diagrams and map making. How ever much I invest my practice with significances and private meditations, I hope that the primary intention of the work, to look in wonder at the world, is lucid and accessible to everyone.
