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What Landscape Means to Me

What Landscape Means to Me l a n d s c a p e s (2012), 1, pp. 57–69 © Peter Fowler Peter Fowler At this stage in life your public just wants you to finish ... They don’t want you to keep on having another go Alan Bennett, The Paris Review, 10 January, 2012 Landscape, as with most things, is a matter of chance and acculturation: by which I mean the part that landscape plays in one’s life, how one stumbles across it, how one’s attitudes towards it are developed and change, and how one perceives it. As art, literature and several ’ologies show, every landscape is ultimately an invented landscape. Nevertheless, for me, to a large extent, landscape is my life and life is landscape, experienced by living and working in city, town, suburbia, countryside and coast. Much landscape I see as metaphor for past and present on the way to apocalypse soon, a dystopian vision, like J. G. Ballard’s suburban nightmares, increasingly reflected in my paintings. They, like my fieldwork, began in innocence and pleasure but, like my perceptions of landscape, are increasingly dark and forbidding. In our greedy over-exploitation of landscape worldwide, I see more and more the end of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Landscapes Taylor & Francis

What Landscape Means to Me

Fowler, Peter
Landscapes , Volume 13 (1): 13 – Jun 1, 2012
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Taylor & Francis
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© Peter Fowler 2013
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2040-8153
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l a n d s c a p e s (2012), 1, pp. 57–69 © Peter Fowler Peter Fowler At this stage in life your public just wants you to finish ... They don’t want you to keep on having another go Alan Bennett, The Paris Review, 10 January, 2012 Landscape, as with most things, is a matter of chance and acculturation: by which I mean the part that landscape plays in one’s life, how one stumbles across it, how one’s attitudes towards it are developed and change, and how one perceives it. As art, literature and several ’ologies show, every landscape is ultimately an invented landscape. Nevertheless, for me, to a large extent, landscape is my life and life is landscape, experienced by living and working in city, town, suburbia, countryside and coast. Much landscape I see as metaphor for past and present on the way to apocalypse soon, a dystopian vision, like J. G. Ballard’s suburban nightmares, increasingly reflected in my paintings. They, like my fieldwork, began in innocence and pleasure but, like my perceptions of landscape, are increasingly dark and forbidding. In our greedy over-exploitation of landscape worldwide, I see more and more the end of

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