Between Places presents a new body of work by painter Matt James, exploring how memory transforms our experience of landscape. Rather than recording a single location, these paintings merge recollections of different environments — places that overlap, dissolve, and re-form on the canvas.
Through expressive brushwork and palette knife marks, James builds rhythmic layers of movement and direction, inviting viewers to feel as though they are travelling through the scene rather than simply observing it. Contrasts in texture and paint thickness shift between figurative clarity and abstraction, echoing the fragmented way memory operates — vivid in parts, hazy in others.
At the core of Between Places lies a fascination with change. Each work captures the restless energy of the natural world: the flicker of light, the motion of air, the moment when form begins to blur into feeling. These landscapes become internal — reimagined geographies that exist somewhere between observation and emotion.
Image: Study-Blue Hills-20×20
