An exhibition of contemporary landscape painting by Paul Mellor and John Elcock at Editions Gallery.
Paul Mellor’s paintings explore history, loss, and mortality as he seeks to question the idea of both private and collective memories, their illusion and ambiguity. Taking his personal memories – of places (real or imagined) – as a starting point. He uses source materials from the internet, film stills, postcards and his old photographs to affect a distance from the subject so the final painting is viewed atmospherically rather than descriptively.
John Elcock is a visual artist based in Liverpool with a multidisciplinary practice centred on painting and conceptual sculpture. He is a founder member of the Material Matters collective.
From Yorkshire, Scotland, Wales to the Wirral, the artists have gathered a series of enigmatic yet strangely beautiful paintings that shed new light both on the familiar and the unknown. The works are accompanied by a selection of found objects, photographs and other ephemera, specially chosen by the artists to provide a glimpse of respective journeys towards their practical realisation in the studio.
Open weekdays. (Closed Saturday & Sunday)
Editions Gallery, 16 Cook Street, Liverpool.