’Bodies in space become the ‘figure-ground relationship’, a central issue for so much painting. The beach starts each day like a blank canvas. People arrive and organise themselves in relation to the sun, sea, land, and wind, but most importantly to each other. It is like a grand experiment in social behaviour, where all you need to know about human interaction is visible and paintable. It is also an endlessly changing optical field, allowing an exploration of the territory between abstraction and representation, and those transitional moments when a thing becomes untied from a singular reading, ground becomes light, bodies dissolve into paint, and the illusory becomes physical.’
Nick Bodimeade