Reflected Koi - detail, Land in CloseUp Series
2010
Wool felt and Oil paint on Raw Canvas
28x44 inches
Instead of a detached view of a distant scene,
Reflected Koi gets up-close, as close as I can.
Not quite a communication of simple direct experience.
A layer of reflection highlights the impassible barrier
between creatures such as they
and creatures such as I.
Landscape paintings describe humans
by describing their environments.
By landscape I don’t mean a land fully tamed,
but I do mean a land that is
subject to human interaction.
No pretense of wilderness here,
I am actively searching for human influence.
I want to locate interconnections between
the way I sense,
the way I understand and
the way I accumulate
my firmly grounded sense of place.
Reflected Koi gets up-close, as close as I can.
Not quite a communication of simple direct experience.
A layer of reflection highlights the impassible barrier
between creatures such as they
and creatures such as I.
Landscape paintings describe humans
by describing their environments.
By landscape I don’t mean a land fully tamed,
but I do mean a land that is
subject to human interaction.
No pretense of wilderness here,
I am actively searching for human influence.
I want to locate interconnections between
the way I sense,
the way I understand and
the way I accumulate
my firmly grounded sense of place.
Sharon Hogg is a visual artist working in Calgary Alberta and Lombardy Ontario, Canada. She holds a Bachelors of Fine Art and a Masters of Fine Art from the Alberta College of Art and Design.
Where humans intersect with unseen natural forces, she imagines what lies behind or beneath the surface. More than seeing, she wants to feel the backstory, the understory, the glue that holds it all together. Her work seeks to bring that underlying level of awareness closer to the visible and the touchable.
The Sublime, New Materialism and the Vorticists are influences.