Land scape Special Edition CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW like how the landscape affected me during my walks, but often the ideas of the painting happen during the process of making it. I found the group exhibition titled The Sea to be great because its location in Sheffield in the UK couldn’t be much more centred between the west and east coasts of England, so the ability for art to do that to the viewer and take them into that environment is great and important sometimes. Everybody takes their experiences and knowledge with them to view art and it is important to apply that to each work of art. There are clues to what I’m expressing in my work but it’s obviously open to interpretation sometimes, and I’m sure that there might be things that I haven’t realised that some viewers might grasp, so I think that personal interpretations are vital in any work of art. This is in much the same way as I often find it more rewarding to study another artist's work and try to work out what they were trying to express before reading the caption or the press release about the exhibition. The saying “Every picture speaks a thousand words” is very true and I am actually writing a book at the moment bringing together ideas I’ve been influenced by over my life to go along with my artwork since my degree. The chapters titled The CV and Me, The Home, Chance, Reason, Walking, The Fire and the Signature, and Books go into detail of why I am interested in certain things, work the way I do, and what has made me the person I am. It is a bit of a journey of self-discovery of books, magazine cuttings and even subjects I studied back in school that have influenced me and has been put together in quite a fun way I think to understand my work and me as an artist. Your artistic production offers a critical political point of the unstable relationship