Welcome

Welcome to Amrit Row’s website designed by my old art school mate, Stephen Wragg.

Its not really an exhaustive retrospective of my work but a site showing some links between my late 80’s drawings and paintings and photographic images/objects I’m making now. I’m still concerned with subject/object relationships and the loss of untouched landscape. I think of myself as an artist in the Romantic tradition where loss and historical contingency are both driving forces behind discontentment and powerlessness. The more we clear, the more we lighten, the more we create a world of political management. We need the symbolic darkness of the wilderness to enable us to be free, to be free from worry about how we are to manage a completely lightened, humanised world. I think that apart from supporting those who defend our wild places, Art is the only other way to come to terms with the loss that happens every minute of the day.

A fuller statement about my general approach to making work can be found by clicking on the link at the top of the page. With Steve’s help, I’m going to try and keep the site updated with new work so those who are interested can keep a track on what I’m up to. At some point, there will be an area of the site for the gardens I’ve been designing. I’ve had a landscape business since 1990 and now trade under the name spacemagic garden design since moving to Bradford on Avon from London in 2002.

Amrit Row

October 2004