Graham Durward

Graham Durward is fascinated by the way paint can materialize presence in its physical and psychological realms. How its qualities can engage us with the world as we see it.

His artistic heritage is one of modernist painting filtered through a traditional art school training and in post conceptualism. This often involves a love hate relationship with creativity bordering on melancholia as befits a northern European sensibility.

More recently fixating on the natural world, he feels free of the necessity of ideas in painting. Nevertheless, he is always questioning how wide the quotation marks are.