Jonathan Freemantle | Inside the Artist’s Studio | Escat Gallery

I'm Jonathan Fremantle. I'll be exhibiting with ESCAD Gallery on the 17th of March, 2027. It'll be an exhibition of sculpture and painting. The sculptures are carved from fallen trees, mostly Scottish trees. My studio is here in Scotland. So I then carve the woods, often juniper or cedar, and then char the surface and finish it with beeswax. And the paintings are made in a similar way, using found material. I climb mountains and gather rocks on the mountain, grind the rock and then make the paint. It's oil paint, mixing oil and beeswax with the ground pigment to make the paint. And the work all comes from a practice of meditation that's pretty fundamental to what I'm doing. And in an attempt to dissolve the line between my body and nature, There's themes like flight, you'll see lots of wings. I'm also looking at a way to capture the energy that comes into the body through meditation, apparently from above. And a memory from when I was very young, where I thought I could fly. It's I think it's a primary memory that many of us have. So yeah, I'm looking forward to showing this work in a wonderful gallery That's the second show I'll have with them. Yeah, look forward to seeing it all up.