Megan Nurcombe

Through the intermingling of colour, line and mark, I convey the interconnection of sensory and emotional details in one’s experience of place. The body serves as a tool in communicating memory through gesture as I activate my body in performative painting processes. The body’s movement through space is continually centralised in my practice, from walking through landscapes to performing place memory in the studio. The resulting visual works function as evocations of experience, of walking in the landscape and recalling embodied place memories. I have chosen to undertake this investigation into place experience as a result of a personal captivation with landscape and the physical, emotional and spiritual effects of being in the landscape. I plan to continue this investigation into landscape and self, and specifically the spiritual resonances of the relationship between nature and humanity, through postgraduate study in Theology and the Arts at the University of St. Andrews.