The force that drives my work is an intention to create paintings which allude to a sensory experience of 'place'. Generally that ‘place’ will exist in the real world, and sometimes it will exist within the possibilities of painting.

It is always specific, there is a search within the work for something that is recognised through experience. It is a search for learning but also for familiarity. These are monuments of personal experience..moments in time..an attempt to trap an incidence or an experience. I want to create a drawn space that exists somewhere between the use of an abstractly painted mark and a traditionally recognised space defining mark. Using a process based method which utilises gravity and chance discovery, I hope to find a place which is about the possibility of mark making, illusory space and an object which exists in three dimensions. ..Literally a play between painting, photographic illusion and sculpture.

Melanie Comber 2021