Brian D Hodgson seeks out wild places and makes work on location, often remote mountains, forests and coastlines. The resulting artworks are imbued with the artist’s experience of environmental conditions during their realisation. The artworks invite the viewer to make their own mental journeys through their exploration of the printed image.
Being immersed in these continually changing environments, which might be considered as a series of wild residencies, human exposure is translated through the artist into drawn marks on a copper etching plate, the image emerging from being present in this particular time and place. Integrated into the plate surface is the history of its making, engendered by forces of nature.
The marks are embedded through etching the plate, an accelerated and compressed version of changes wrought on the landscape over longer spans of time. What viewers see in the print is a state in time.
For Hodgson, the process of making the work is personally psycho-navigational, a way of finding location and direction; a place to be where the spirit can breathe.
Brian D Hodgson seeks out wild places and makes work on location, often remote mountains, forests and coastlines. The resulting artworks are imbued with the artist’s experience of environmental conditions during their realisation. The artworks invite the viewer to make their own mental journeys through their exploration of the printed image.
Being immersed in these continually changing environments, which might be considered as a series of wild residencies, human exposure is translated through the artist into drawn marks on a copper etching plate, the image emerging from being present in this particular time and place. Integrated into the plate surface is the history of its making, engendered by forces of nature.
The marks are embedded through etching the plate, an accelerated and compressed version of changes wrought on the landscape over longer spans of time. What viewers see in the print is a state in time.
For Hodgson, the process of making the work is personally psycho-navigational, a way of finding location and direction; a place to be where the spirit can breathe.