Maggie James

Maggie James is a painter, based in Wales. Her work is held in public and private collections. Much of her work uses paint to suggest feelings and describe space. These might appear dreamlike and fictional.

During an overnight train journey to Venice - in the days we could travel - I made a series of quickfire drawings - a trail of motorway headlights, trees on a ridge, a toy town Tesco roof. The speed of travel made incidents segue and overlap. Scanning the landscape I drew fleeting fragments of things that I knew and other things that were totally unfamiliar, new forms like new words. The concertina book holds a collection of these, unfolding the landscape in time and space. The excitement and optimism of the journey references Steve Reichs ‘Vermont Counterpoint’.