Glen Mendes

" I make new art from explorations and travel “focusing on specific sites and fieldtrips.

Born in a seaside town, I currently live in London, studied art at Heatherley’s in Chelsea and at Newlyn art school I graduated in fine art, painting illustration and visual media at Wimbledon and Camberwell UAL.

I found indoor studio spaces were claustrophobic preferring open spaces my studio is when I am out on location and it is where I gain inspiration and space to plan.

My artwork often depicts struggle against adversity and fighting the odds it’s a hidden mysterious unseen battle an act of balance.

I research and strengthen my image bank visiting art gallery’s recreating new art from old art.

Choosing a site becomes an intimate process of observation and an act of creation in time, space and place, found objects, I take photographs and video that can transform a mundane space into a poetic land art language.

This is my art practice and it has its roots in travel as an experience, it gives body and authenticity to the work.

Currently my practice concerns developing a form of shamanic meditation a land art connection within the specific site I start with a few notes and rough sketches these begin to form a map, imagine what it would be like if you could draw a diagram of your thoughts, when connected energetically to a landscape, where the lines produced are a language that translates as drawing, painting or photograph.