Where The Light Lands | Jade Boswell

More and more I am drawn to the moments that stop you. It might be a coastline, in the last hour before sunset, or even in the stillness after a storm you didn't think would pass. Most of the time we all miss these moments entirely. Life moves so fast now and we are so busy looking down instead of up.

The Where the Light Lands collection is my attempt to hold on to those moments a little longer. Maybe even notice them in the first place, after too much time letting life rush you by. Some pieces begin with a real place, and others begin with a feeling that, when painted, I felt needed a geography. Either way, the paintings start with the same impulse: slowing down, and looking up.

The light in these paintings shifts and pulls you in. They pull you into a different view when the sun drops in the day and they are cast in shadow compared to the bright light of midday. I want these paintings to make you want to come back to them, sit with them and look out onto their horizons to see what you might find. How does it feel when you stop long enough to notice it?

We have become very good at filling time. Squeezing it into its optimum state and then just feeling behind if you aren't doing that. Every hour is full, which in turn can feel as though stillness is a failure. But what if the ultimate luxury isn't more... what if it is slower?

Unhurried is a series of paintings born from that question. Painted horizon lines so that we can look up and out rather than down and forward. These paintings aim to invite you to sit with your time rather than race through it. What if it turns out that not doing something is the most radical thing you can do?

The orange and turquoise palette is warm and consistent across the series and introduces soft hints of red, purple and cream. It is a bold idea and use of colour, just softly delivered. Each piece is an invitation to settle into what you might find on the horizon if you stopped long enough to look.

This is the first chapter and I hope for there to be many more.

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