A Confluence of Elements

The Lossenham minerals and clays prospected and worked into an array of coloured pigments by Russell have afforded Melvyn a vocabulary unique to the land. Colours ground fine, mixed with oil to produce paints and inks, the soul of place applied to canvas and board. Melvyn transmutes forms contained within his paintings and develops them into sculptural forms. The sculptures are carved from a natural resin plaster containing foraged Lossenham pigments, or from found wood on the landscape.