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Tea and oranges in Paris

‘My practice explores physical and emotional geography, locating experiences of landscapes through transformative cartography. Recent work includes: the visibility of water in painting, painting water with light, and mapping water sources and resources. I am interested in journeys recorded on the land and water, and the plurality of place – never alike / always the same.

I describe myself as having a foot in the arts and a foot in the world. I regard the outdoor environment as my studio, and work in a peripatetic mode. I read about Geopoetics, Information Systems and ‘Pataphysics. I relish ideas of moving beyond a continuous classification in our own image, to a practice of continuous being.

My subject is the natural environment. My methodology is slow travel. I survey forests, mountains, deserts and shorelines. It’s a fantastic life, all about process. I swim in high glacial lakes, climb over big swathes of rock, walk along paths and steep ridges, cross-country ski whole valleys, and cycle large distances. I immerse myself with experiences, and work with great freedom.’

Luce Choules