Evening Ride, 2005
Oil on canvas
75.0 x 100.0 cm
"This series of paintings is a response to my trip to Kathmandu, Nepal at the beginning of 2005, which was an almost hallucinatory introduction to the valley of gods, tuk-tuks, Holy cows and in-laws to be.
The works are sourced from snapshots
and video-footage of my daily travels in and around the rambling/scrambling
city; moments caught at a hilltop temple or from the back of a motorbike
winding homewards.
Ring
Road No.1, 2005
Oil on canvas
75.0 x 100.0 cm
Kathesimbhu, 2005
Oil on canvas
75.0 x 100.0 cm
I am intrigued by the play that occurs when these fleeting transient video images are captured in the somewhat contemplative medium of oil paint; and the way in which through painting these photographic images they can be re-invested with the fleshy vibrancy of everyday life.
This process is evocative of the vivid bustling impermanence so evident in Kathmandu, that is also inherent in the simple daily experience of passing through spaces and places anywhere."
Kate Stevens
Ring
Road No.2, 2005
Oil on canvas
75.0 x 100.0 cm
Leaving Sati, 2005
Oil on canvas
75.0 x 100.0 cm