Artists

Peter Hill

Genesis and the Mapping of Memory

In his new show of photographs and paintings, Peter Hill has tried to follow and illuminate the process of growth through opening up to memory and synchronicity.

He has been making paintings which entail a specific process for the last seven years.  The first step consists of the mixing on canvas, on the floor, of colours, media and water that produces a swamp of activity and reactions.  After the paint has stilled comes the search for an environment that could “sustain life”.  Mapping the answers, to formulate a place organically as a tree might grow, is an emotional process relying on experience and memory.  For Hill, this process is a metaphor for physical and spiritual growth.

In an effort to record the physical changes that help uncover this process photographs were made.  These became the cues and definition for the landscape.  They also existed on their own as record of memory, clues to possibility and an example of seeing a different perspective.

In following the “instinctive tourism of infancy” Peter has tried to capture the genesis of their growth.

Quote:  “Arthur and George”, Julian Barnes, Odeon, 2007