David Page

I have drawn and painted (and written) constantly since I was first able to do these things – encouraged by a father who wanted to do everything. I came regularly to the Norfolk/Suffolk border from the ’seventies, and have lived here permanently from the ‘nineties.

Much of my work is about the landscape here: the natural cycle developed and modulated by the farming industry – certainly neither parkland  nor ‘wild nature’,  so my images have gone under the general heading ‘Fieldmarks’-  the dialogue between what Nature wants to do, and the restraints and patterns which (in our area) farming seeks to impose on it. More recently I have been more concerned with the paradoxical oddity of the ordinary, and the attempt to find the right way to present it. I don’t mean that to sound obscure, but of course we are all aware of the difficulty of realising what Cezanne called “ mon petit sensation.”

See David Page video interview by Noah Carter studio at  https://vimeo.com/318819532