"Bunker - Orford Ness"
watercolour
matthew roberts
20-11-05

The visual language of painting, or time-based computer generated film, is effective in recording and interpreting existing data, and can give rise to meaningful insight in an all encompassing way. As an artist I see the moulding of shingle by the sea as strongly analagous to the processes used in making watercolour paintings. The application and manipulation of pigment suspended in water, being channelled through reflective, and non-intrusive energy. It is the pattern of energy over matter and time created by the forces of weather and light, that provides the stimulous for study. I am particularly interested in weather activity (cloud, air humidity), and its filtering of sunlight, as a constant interaction of forces, infusing and enveloping the land form of Orford Ness.