Nancy Collantine

Nancy Collantine is a Northern British painter who works from drawings of places that lead to compositional maps, or from collages she makes with found materials that disrupt and shift the painting's starting point.

These are the first stage of her process of releasing the representational and working with the drawing or the materiality of materials, as a way to open up the painting and allow it to be itself.

As the surface builds, so does tension, anything easily come by has to go and risk and chance are as vital as colour in her bid to beckon forth mysterious forms and unfamiliar energy that she can build upon and respond to. Her aim is to let the paintings remain playful and light, inviting the viewer to feel the uncertainty and sensation of the process.