Ed Hinkley Studio
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Industrial Landscapes
I consider this series of paintings to be primarily 'landscapes'. Landscapes however, that represent what remains of a land at the end of an age of occupation. In most of these scenarios, the enterprise of archaic production has resulted in the destabilization of the environment, and an almost complete abandonment by its inhabitants. In others, outdated industry and development, prop up the land in what may ultimately be a futile effort to halt or turn back the shifting land mass or watery forms. In subtle ways, natural, and even unnatural forces, seem to be sending signals that they are in the process of some kind of reclamation. Winds blow in many directions at once; water flows unnaturally or is pushed against its will; sections of strata balance precariously, awaiting perhaps, some kind of catastrophic domino effect.
Figures in Landscapes
These paintings are smaller versions of the larger figures in landscapes shown under the oil painting section, which depict mostly fragmented figures, coupled with bits of art historical or cultural reference, and/or pieces of other landscape or structural images. The figures and motifs suggest a traversing of mnemonic, geographic or psychological borders, continuing to question and explore relationships between interior and exterior worlds.
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