Victoria Kiff - FIGURES OF THE LAKE
VICTORIA KIFF - FIGURES OF THE LAKE
´The Lake’ with it’s silence and perplexing stillness; a vast deep water which reflects all light and shadow, has remained a place of focus for my thoughts on painting.
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Figures of The Lake
The Body and the Landscape
‘The Lake’ with its silence and perplexing stillness; a vast deep water which reflects all light and shadow, has remained a place of focus for my thoughts on painting.
The waterways which dominate my surroundings lead to the Castle Water, within the marshes to the shores at Rye Harbour. It is this place where my external visual reality forms the emotional response to re-create a narrative into my figurative painting and mixed media work.
The figure-landscapes, in an inner visual sense, discover new ways of exploring the human nerves, the heart, the brain, the eye. The objective being to create tension in various depths and to correlate abstract form and natural form.
The influences reference a tradition in mid-20th century modern painting, for example the paintings of Richard Diebenkorn and Keith Vaughan. Other sources range from historical literary figures to film and cinematography. I have often worked in a way in which creating narrative is key to the images, and all types of literature are linked to these, as is my own creative writing.
Victoria Kiff, September 2023
