Jonathan Pitts
Grey sunrises over red houses, endless landscapes of greatest hits albums. Subsiding stretches of wet tarmac in the supermarket car parks. Windy streets and warm coats, Lemsip colds and dry throats.
It's hard to ignore the massive sprawling blandness that is a supermarket, shopping centre, or industrial estate. It is a landscape that is lived and worked in, laughed and cried in, a place where you wait or queue before you leave. A towering landscape, that guides you through predictability.
When I make a painting I aim to create a meditative space that confronts this blandness. Essentially, an image to stare at that references a generic supermarket landscape, retaining its sense of banality. It is by using the formal and technical construction of making a picture, that, I am allowed to meditate over the image. Look beyond it by looking at the details, finding sadness and laughter in the colours. It is for the viewer to follow these qualities and to meditate within the space. Looking beyond the image and beyond the blandness that it represents.
Jonathan Pitts.
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