Mark Boardman
August 7th – 23rd
Mark Boardman graduated from University College Falmouth in 2009 with a BA in Illustration. He paints primarily in oils and has exhibited paintings in Bristol and London.
“Undercover” is project that draws inspiration from memory and nostalgia. My intention is to capture moments and feelings that have been visually lost, even to memory, but remain in scraps of emotion. While the paintings are from my own memory, my aim is for the viewer to see parallels in their own recollections, and so the subjects that I choose to paint are unspecific: memories of watching the road as a passenger, or small details from home spaces that seem unimportant if not for fact that they are part of our everyday lives. I find that these moments and places inform my idea of childhood and past self more so that the events or people I have known.
Amongst these paintings are ink drawings of abstracted machinery that I find visually interesting. These too have a sense of time to them, this time impersonal, as machines that lie inactive.
