This Carrara Marble relief panel has been in my private collection for
several years. I made it back in 2008. It measures 1m x 26 cm x 2.5 cm. The marble
is extremely thin and I remember being extremely anxious when working on it. Due
to the fragility it was carved using only hand tools and in a way the stone dictated
what I was going to be able to do with it.
At the time I can recall marvelling at the aerial photography of Yann Arthur
–Bertrand. His airborne odyssey took him across six countries, photographing
specular panoramas of vast geographical formations. These photos gave a
different perspective of landscapes; coast lines and rivers in extraordinary
compositions of light and form. What I ended up doing was a result of these
photos, but the landscape was not fixed to any location but recalled within my
own memory. It is a landscape that I still enjoy studying especially when it
comes to life as it did here at 3.30 pm on 27/01/2013, illuminated by a
wonderful winter light. The title by the way is ‘Tundra’.
