His work is a philosophical examination of the ways in which consciousness and subconsciousness interact to create a painting. Through his adventures and many books, Robert Macfarlane has continually fathomed the depths of the systems that connect living beings with the land – exploring everything from mountains to catacombs to ask a central question – in the words of Jonas Salk – Are we being good ancestors? Macfarlane has stated: ‘for nearly two decades I have been writing about the relationships of landscape and the human heart.’Īt the centre of Nigel Cooke’s artistic practice is a fascination with the way information travels from the brain, through the body and nervous system, onto the canvas and back again. His last novel The Death of Francis Bacon, abstractly envisions the painter’s final days in a convent hospital in Madrid, translating Bacon’s intense visual language into hypnotic, masterfully written vignettes. Max Porter, whose acclaimed novels include Grief is a Thing with Feathers and Lanny, is a highly imaginative and poetic writer who relishes in the capacity of language both as a vehicle for storytelling and as textural form equivalent to an impasto brushstroke.
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