Cherie Smith
Romford
Extracting inspiration from nature, converting into pieces of abstraction encourages the viewer to consider their place within the context of the immediate environment, shapes and colours echo this.
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My work responds to city spaces and the natural environment. Both rural and urban space is key. Modern cities are defined by office buildings, skyscrapers and architecture that can become industrious and hostile. My intention is to gain a sense of utopianism in response to those environments we are surrounded by everyday that can restrict us, are claustrophobic and man-made. Within the natural world I feel a sense of freedom. The rural landscape has infinite possibilities from which to produce artwork that captures the rhythmic contours of nature. I am concerned with the notion of becoming at one with the natural environment and express my emotions through colour and form with paint, rather than depicting imitative representation to reflect how I feel. In addition, the process of making, building up complex layers and use of materials is as equally important. It explores chance experimentation and other organic processes that echo my overall intention to gaining a sense of release, an emotional engagement with the work.
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