How To Handle Being Mortal

Ed (B.1994) is a Painter currently based in East Cornwall

My intent as an image maker is to paint through words. I am fascinated by the notion that narrative, truth, and fiction can lend themselves to one another in a way that can offer up genuine questions. Words can, in fact, lie but feeling is universal in its potency.

I think of the voice of painting as sitting somewhere between music and written language. My images evolve from drawings that I have made from life, and it is about attempting to move in an honest direction. I think of the titles of my paintings on the same plane as the surface of the work, being intrinsically linked together. They act as question marks. All I want with my image-making is to ask questions.

I try and paint what I know, but what I know is different from what I understand. I know feeling, but I do not understand it. This contradiction is illuminating. False ground is self-sustaining. The inability, or the attempt to articulate, is the fuel and the fire to my work. 

It is the movement of ideas or something “having legs” that engages me. It is an attempt to arrive somewhere, and the process is where meaning and significance lie. It is all about peddling rhythm and following your nose, listening rather than making noise. Trying to feel behind the years gone past; an ode to human existence. 

Memories are giants cast into stone, which is a love letter to strength and to the hope that tomorrow will be better.