Georgina Parkins
My work mostly draws inspiration from architecture and how it relates to the surrounding landscape. Reoccurring themes within my painting include: architecture with visible signs of decay; urban and industrial spaces; suggestion and manipulation of the horizon. With which, I can investigate and abbreviate an otherwise complex landscape.
The combination of clean hard lines and flaky surfaces found in decaying architectural spaces intrigue me.
By interpreting these surfaces through paint I aim to give my work a sense of history. The movement and physicality of the paint enable the work to become architectural objects-emitting the atmospherics and personality of a particular space.
The history behind the surfaces I create is fundamental to my practice. I am constantly clearing my paintings by covering them in a layer of paint or scraping back the paint back to expose the surfaces underneath. By constantly clearing, then re-establishing the piece, I give my painting a past. Every stage within a piece of work is of great importance-every layer is significant on the overall dynamics of the painting.
Biography
I spent most of my childhood in Highland Perthshire before moving to Edinburgh to Study at Edinburgh College of Art. After graduating with BA Hons in Drawing and Painting in 2011 I was invited by The Royal Scottish Academy to exhibit as one of their New Contemporaries.
From 2012 I have exhibited regularly across Great Britain and I am currently working on some new pieces which will be shown at The Roger Billcliffe Gallery.