The In-Between Places statement

We rush by, cocooned in our busy lives, missing beauty in the most ordinary familiar places.

In the work for this touring exhibition, I used views from my travels. I paint land that is seemingly ordinary and unimportant, captured in transit by my trusty digital camera. The places I paint are not the grand vistas of traditional landscape painting. These somewhat ordinary pieces of land become interesting and beguiling subjects for me as a painter. I am interested in the beauty such passages of place can contain and the dynamic unexpected abstract qualities we can see when the land slips by our car windows.

These landscapes are neither the origin nor the destination of any important journey, just the largely ignored spaces that lay somewhere between where we were and where we are heading. And to me, these in-between places are quite beautiful.

Amanda – 2012