Passionate
about environmental issues and fascinated by archaeology, he seeks
to understand the impact that humans have on their environment.
Exploring the tension between man and nature, his work draws out
the peculiar dynamic of a landscape formed by human activity that
is constantly being repossessed by the implacable forces of nature.
The creative process by which the paintings evolve - applying layer
upon layer of paint, then scraping back, then re-layering - echoes
the process by which the landscape itself is being formed.
Ian’s
paintings are after rather than from nature between real and imagined.
Exploring the realm between abstract and figurative, they are images
of a world that lies visibly about us but remains unseen –
obscured by the hurly burly of present day living.
