Georgina Harris
Currently based in London, Georgina graduated from Lancaster University in 2020 and went on to win the Freelands Painting Prize.
Georgina's work investigates how our bodies are emotionally and physically intertwined with the natural landscape. She is interested in painting worlds where the real and the mythical exist together.
Georgina paint outdoors in oils or acrylics, working quickly and instinctively. It takes her a few hours to complete a painting. She builds up layers of colour and gesture varying from soft washes to impasto stabs, from luminous glazes to opaque blobs of colour. With each brush mark she attempts to depict the landscape as something felt by the body. Each brushstroke depicting a feeling, a phenomenon.
Back in the studio, Georgina paints the places she has walked, based on memory, and referencing paintings made on location. These works take the form of alternative maps of an area, and can be of places she visits for the day, or that she returns to for years.
Georgina hope the viewer feels as if her paintings contain a space which they could walk into.
Her work rejects the calculated, geographical perception of place, and embraces the emotional entanglement we have with the landscapes we move through. Fundamentally, she hopes her paintings present an alternative way to relate to the natural world.
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Freelands Painting Prize | Freelands Foundation | Winner | 2020 |