https://emilybland.co.uk emilybland Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:35:00 +0000 https://emilybland.co.uk en https://emilybland.co.uk/carousel Tue, 25 Jul 2023 18:56:16 +0000 emilybland https://emilybland.co.uk/carousel https://emilybland.co.uk/a-recurring-thought Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:08:57 +0000 emilybland https://emilybland.co.uk/a-recurring-thought A Recurring Thought 2022-presentPaintings about memory, daydreams and impossible space   I have had this recurring thought since childhood of a chair in motion. It is more than just a thought, it is an elaborate vision of a complex action, existing exclusively in my imagination. In this vision, a chair is being moved up and down in a nonsensical manner by a mysterious character who is not pictured, but whose actions I feel and visualise. The vision visits me in day dreams, when I am feeling safe and relaxed. It is familiar, precise, repetitive and reliable. However, it has an uneasy side to it – this vision lives by its own rules, a constant loop that exists in impossible physical space. “A recurring thought” is an attempt to understand all angles of this experience: the calmness I enjoy while visualising, the movement of the chair, the sense of impossible physicality, the surrounding area and light sources, the feelings and actions of the person moving the chair, and finally the transition of the scene from the imagined to the canvas.Despite the original recurring thought always being identical, each painting shows a different moment or viewpoint. Sometimes working from sketches of sketches, sometimes fresh from the vision itself. In the earlier paintings most visual elements are abstracted. In the more recent work, the chair becomes recognisable, as I learn to embrace the figurative and allow a truer experience for the viewer. https://emilybland.co.uk/artist-statement Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:35:00 +0000 emilybland https://emilybland.co.uk/artist-statement My work explores the relationship between memory and imagined space. I am interested in the way certain images or sensations can persist internally for years, becoming both familiar and difficult to explain. Working primarily through painting, I use recurring forms, gestures, and spatial constructions to investigate experiences that exist somewhere between daydreams and physical reality. https://emilybland.co.uk/past-collections Tue, 27 Oct 2020 10:05:02 +0000 emilybland https://emilybland.co.uk/past-collections https://emilybland.co.uk/2022 Sun, 27 Mar 2022 19:40:27 +0000 emilybland https://emilybland.co.uk/2022 https://emilybland.co.uk/2021 Tue, 01 Feb 2022 15:32:41 +0000 emilybland https://emilybland.co.uk/2021 https://emilybland.co.uk/2020 Thu, 04 Feb 2021 16:50:23 +0000 emilybland https://emilybland.co.uk/2020 https://emilybland.co.uk/2019 Thu, 29 Oct 2020 12:05:47 +0000 emilybland https://emilybland.co.uk/2019 https://emilybland.co.uk/2018 Thu, 29 Oct 2020 12:06:01 +0000 emilybland https://emilybland.co.uk/2018 https://emilybland.co.uk/2017 Fri, 30 Oct 2020 19:45:50 +0000 emilybland https://emilybland.co.uk/2017