Further Tales Artlyst May 2021

Known for his large scale paintings and in-situ projects, often involving collaborations with architects,
designers and fellow artists, Rankle takes as his main subject the development of landscape art as a
concept related to changes in attitude to the environment.
“I consider the series of Further Tales paintings and studies as an evolving work with strong
autobiographical elements, as in for example, Further Tales along the Hudson and Further Tales from
the Beach House.

“In these latest works, partly as a response to the remarkable situation we’ve been experiencing in
terms of travel restrictions, the usual ways of noticing and gathering material from foreign places or
countryside walks, essential contexts for the landscape artist, have been difficult.
“The intention for these recent smaller paintings has been to revisit and rework in the confines of the
studio, the on-going series of landscape sketches I’ve made as a project Studio Notes & Field
Studies since leaving Goldsmiths and moving to Yorkshire in the 1970’s.

“Revisiting times, places and styles from when I first became interested in referencing the English
Watercolour School as an early conceptual equivalent of the ‘walking in landscape interventions’ of
artists such as Richard Long and particularly Hamish Fulton for whom a single photograph or text
often represents an entire day spent walking and observing nature and natural forces.
“These recent paintings are presented at Bermondsey Project Space with a selection of earlier works
from the Untitled Paintings and Pastoral Collateral projects.”