PAINTINGS 2006


Inspiration comes directly from areas of landscape that hold specific meaning for me; areas that have provided a backdrop to personal memories or events. I often work in series, observing the way an environment is constantly changing, altered by erosion, weather and conditions of time. The paintings work on an intuitive level without pinning down particular landmarks but aiming instead for a feeling of timelessness and a sense of largeness or the panoramic. For this reason the paintings themselves retain an ambiguity of image but accurately reflect my own instinctive reactions to the subject.

“Out of random marks something recognisable emerges while something one thought to be recognisable recedes back into randomness…
Keefe’s approach of working partly with intent and partly with unplanned freedom mirrors the landscape as she sees it. This is a landscape both structured and chaotic. It is the confrontation and meeting between these opposing states in nature and in her painting which produces dynamic energy and exciting friction.”

(Taken from the foreword to PRIMA MATERIA
by Arts Author VIVIENNE LIGHT)