Processionals

A combination of processes progressed from my #Moelwyns and Land Poems, with a little overlap into asemic writing and scientific analysis - plus a generous dash of Bauhaus, being its centennial year. This process began in my childhood and continued when I came across my set of 'Jack and Jill' watercolours in their original 'biggest ever' tin. There were also antique notebooks from my school days that had plenty of blank pages, yellowed and brittle with age.

Extracting colour cues from the land, the poems were composed by hand, line by line, with controlled bands of watercolour. This was then photographed and part processed in much the same way at the Land Poems to purify the colours and form. That process was then repeated using digital drawing techniques 'by eye', responding to the painted poems and no longer working directly with the land. The final processions combine these three approaches, creating a dialogue that touches upon memories, nostalgia, digital and analogue responses to landscape and how the resulting trinities evoke the eternal spiritual procession that connects the land, body, intellect and imagination...

  

  

(Photographs copyright 2019 Remy Dean - please credit)

You can read an article about The Processional Poems in EGO Magazine HERE

Work form this series was first shown as part of my INTER⁁VERBA exhibition
at Oriel Maenofferen Gallery, 2019