Mark Shields

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Mark Shields is written by Mark Shields and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1908455195 (ISBN 10) and 9781908455192 (ISBN 13).

The Inaccessible Land' comprises a selection of Shields' work made over the last 4 years, central to which is an absorbing series of charcoal drawings, a group of 'self made' oils on paper and seven large oil paintings.The charcoals, 'In Principio', are separated into seven days of creation and evoke obscure forces striving to come into being. Suggestions of cosmic distances and mysterious caverns, time-eroded surfaces and glacial landscapes give a sense of primordial beginnings.Of the seven large paintings, five 'Relicta' have pitted and scored surfaces from which simplified, symbolic forms seem to emerge, manifested for a moment before passing again into the flux of existence. They reflect the act of making - unmaking - remaking, the ghosts of previous structures and points of reference rise and fall beneath the clotted surfaces.