Figuration and narration are unifying outsets for my primarily painting based practice.

My current project, Gopher Wood, is a series of paintings with visual basis in compost and figures. The juxtaposition of these elements create narratives revolving around the interplay between ecosystems and humans. The structuring of the motifs is based on modern ecophilosophy and ancient stories from humankind’s earliest civilisations. Compost constitutes a visual foundation throughout the series. Representations of decomposed plant material in various stages serve as habitat or milieu for the figures and thus create a narrative content of mythological character, with existential connotations.

Thomas Rummelhoff
May 2024