ROGER WILSON
My painting now.
My paintings are made in my studio high on the upland heath of the west Pennines.
The expansive moorland landscape is marked by labour and industry from 19th century cotton mills, the over-grazing of subsidised farming and the relentless ‘progress’ of urbanisation and, most recently, the growth of wind farms which occupy every horizon.
In an important way the conflicting elements of the landscape; its persistent manifestations of scale. seasonal change, drama and colour, set against the interruptions of use, commercial, social and political, push for a methodology that is neither unquestioningly celebratory nor bluntly critical. I find painting offers a platform to set out and reflect on these elements and seek new combinations of form and action.
Roger Wilson. July 2020
