Inside artists - issue 10

Sometimes a certain place can take hold of us, stirring emotions as we connect with our surroundings. But how would you describe this place and this feeling to others? Could you put it into words? Could you put paint to canvas, brush to page and pen to paper? For some artists it is their life’s work to be able to convey this sense of location to their viewer, through sweeping landscapes, expressive abstracts or photographs that capture a new way of looking.

Cover artist Senem Oezdogan creates weavings and works on paper inspired by the imposing architecture of New York. She phrases her interest with the world around her perfectly when she says; ‘I don’t want to copy nature and create perfect replicas of what I see, but rather observe the forces that shape it’.

For some it is the emotion felt which holds them to a location and fuels their need to reproduce this in their chosen medium; to convey to the viewer how it felt to walk a coastline, to breathe in the scents of a forest or the sounds of the street in a bustling city. Whether faithfully reproducing each tree and cloud in paint or exploding emotive brush marks in shades of the sky across a canvas, it is exciting as an observer to experience a small part of what the artist must have felt.