Sam Cartman

Sam Cartman

Although the inspiration for my work often comes from visiting singular architectural structures in specific rural places, I primarily use these buildings to provide myself with a structure or form to paint within. Any illusions to representing a particular place masks what I am really interested in, which is to figuratively paint an abstract picture.

The structures I at first capture in drawings serve as a basis for my involvement with the paint and from then on, my interaction with the paint takes over.

Sam Cartman completed a Fine Art Degree in Carlisle, but spent most of his years as a painter in West Scotland and Glasgow. He recently returned to his native Shropshire. 

His paintings are a response to being in the landscape: they are shaped by the experience of being in a certain place at a certain time and the memory of this.