“In Gentle Pruning, Schofield leads us down a garden path where domestic gardening and professional horticultural practices provide a framework for us to consider our interaction with Landscape and Nature. As the artist states “Gardens reveal our complex relationship to landscape; I believe they indicate a deep desire for a closeness with Nature and a compulsion to curate and control it.” Celebrating the persistent motion of plants and the hypnotic rhythm of their undulating growth and decay, Schofield’s paintings are organic and gestural. Using painting tools to evoke an atmosphere of gardens and seasonality he transforms traditional representation of the landscape through a maximalist abstraction. Here the surfaces are worked, dug, scratched, grown, dappled with light and thick with rain - they are the place from which they were made in nature.” - Diana Palmer, POST Space

All paintings are acrylic and oil on stretched canvas and are 112 x 92 cm.

Images courtesy the artist.