Artist Profile Rory Brooke

Brooke’s rhythmic screenprinted layers distill crisp landscape into tender revelation.

Artist Statement

This is a picture based on the view across Cliffe Creek at low tide with the rumpled duvet like mudflats in the mid ground and London Gateway container port in the distance. It illuminates the unexpected beauty of industrial landscapes in the natural environment. It explores contrasts of textures and concentrations of colour.

Artist Biography

Rory Brooke’s work explores the contrast between the natural and the man-made, the beauty of what’s often considered ugly. He is interested in underlying issues and context in society, including climate change, the environment, development and our neighbourhoods. His visual language has an emphasis on blocks of colour, strong geometric shapes and contrasting patterns and textures. He mainly focuses on landscape and seeks to draw out and emphasise abstract elements of composition. His usual mediums are screenprint and linocut.

Tai-Shan Schierenberg, painter, on Rory’s work: “I love the flatness of the colours, and the way the pigment goes down is very beautiful… It’s quite magical.”

Kate Bryan, British art historian, curator, and arts broadcaster: “I think his colour palette is great. He’s a very sophisticated artist.”