Walking the Stone

Walking the Stone references ancient sites in Cornwall, either in the form of megalithic structures or solitary monolithic stones positioned in the Cornish landscape. Exploring these mysterious landscapes, the work coalesces together in this lyrical exploration of Cornwall’s legendary sites.

This body of work, finds layers of lyricism and depth, drawing on both an extensive back catalogue of abstract work and a newer levity with colour. The finished paintings are a distillation of experience, searching for aspects of emptiness, calm and simplicity, hovering somewhere between abstraction and figuration. Walking these ancient locations, Surridge uses GPS to map his whereabouts, and imagine the shapes of walks might create from start to finish, combining modern technology with ancient monuments, purist abstraction with mystical landscape. The ancient sites visible in the works are overlaid with urban gestural elements or lines that appear almost as graffiti mark making on the painterly surface.