Philomine Wales

My imagery is inspired by the textures and surfaces eroded by use and time, using patterns and geometry in landscape, and the visible repair of traditional objects, whether rural buildings, or worn textiles. These narrate their history through the various rifts, rips, fractures, and schisms that have been experienced, together with the interventions made in their preservation. My work moves between apparent abstraction to images based on more representational elements, butalways aim to capture an impression, an emotion, an idea, rather than creating a likeness – a ‘visual metaphor’