RUSSELL HEDGES

My paintings consist of emotional navigations, adjustments and fixes, involving shifting coordinates of moment and memory.  They are models of position, direction and dimension.  They are about here and then, now and there.   For me they are a record of aesthetic process and evolution.   

Positional painting is a general description I use to describe work produced in various places. Cornwall(West Penwith); Spain (the Alpujarran mountains, Sierra Nevada); England (Chiltern Hills).    The motivation is to explore the effects changing physical conditions might have on the imagination.  The physical fact and the psychological process of the making of the painting is paramount.     My concern is to communicate something of the particular intensity of making paintings in a contemporary world context.