Miranda Boulton

Artist statement

Boulton's paintings captivate through their folk influenced honesty.  The viewer finds himself lost in landscapes which are both fictional and at times strangely familiar, populated by obscured female figures and signs of abandoned habitation.

Throughout her work Boulton lays bare deliberate connections between drawing and painting, with the act of drawing constantly pitted against the act of painting throughout the execution of the work.  Boulton's physical relationship to her work and practise is exposed and celebrated, either evident as graphite marks or having been drawn with a paintbrush into or under tense fields of oil paint.

The results are a bold move away from the 'clean and flat' assertion of the contemporary.  These paintings can be difficult and at times pensive.  Landscapes are explored as a feeling rather than representation.