Eastbourne-based Rory Prout’s paintings are made with oil paint on wooden panels, but also with ash, chalk, gesso, wax and resin. They are an effort to reinvent the painting medium for the artist, in order to try and understand it, to define some part of it.
Concerned with an embodied perception of place, Rory Prout’s paintings address experiences of remote or rural landscapes, of places the artist has visited and environments he has moved through while collecting images to work on in the studio. Together with a phenomenological engagement with landscape, Prout is fascinated with the idea of ‘inventing the medium’; of creating a novel process of image making specific to his concerns. His pictures are made with oil and gesso on panel, but also with ash, chalk, clay, wax and resin; and he has increasingly been incorporating digital and mechanical tools within a conventional painting practice.
