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'Following the Fire'
Last update 23rd April 2025

A selection of monochrome works in mixed media, using sculpture, photography, drawing, texts and painting, currently in development. 2025.

In 2022 a wildfire swept through beloved woodland close to my village. That year, more than 75,000 French hectares were consumed in flames and wildfires rampaged in 26 European countries. Change is inevitable but we often resist it. Resistance expresses in us as fear: fear of the loss of solid presence in a stable environment. Change manifests with disruptive, violent chaos or in gentle patterns we think we comprehend and can assimilate. But a sense of identity and connection begin to disintegrate in the spaces in between dramatic events. Familiar forms lose their clarity, edges blur, fine dust obscures. Resistance in the environment manifests in adaptation and the supple use of newly created space.  Evolving ideas transcend the original drama of the wildfire, growing more profound for me and resonating ever more widely as I work. In this overfilled, noisy, modern environment many of us live in, absence intrigues and is hugely creative.

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J E S S I C A   L A N G T O N

artwork

arts visuels

affiliation à la Maison Des Artistes, depuis 2005

& direction créative et artistique

No. siret 388 474 751 000 20

Gallargues Le Montueux, France.

 

office and studio tel : + 33 4 66 35 57 96

jessica@jessicalangton.com

Commission Completed:  'Waterlily'

September 2024 - March 2025

I have been working on a commission to create a site specific artwork on four prepared wood panels measuring when assembled, as closely as possible, the size of  the left wall of an entrance hall.

The goal of the project, worked upon by the client and myself together, was to create a kind of Secret Garden feel, influenced by Monet’s Nymphaea panels in the Orangerie in Paris, using photos I took in Giverny and the client’s own photos of her beloved garden and pool. The space is interior but links two exteriors and we hope might become a kind of winter garden space as well as being the entrance hall into the property.

The artworks were created using collaged photographs, specifically reworked digitally, cut up and assembled across the panels. The canvases  were built up of many layers, creating a resonating depth and watery feel , and painterly gestures of water based colours (inks, acrylic paints, varnishes) applied in gentle washes and brush strokes, in an ‘aquatic, foliage and flower’ inspired palette. I wanted these colours to be applied in transparent washes, and the collaged material to be subdued and pushed back, softened,  with multiple applications.

Slide show of commissioned work for Ocean Two, Miami, USA.
Successfully completed February 2024.

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