Floating Bridges

This group of paintings explore the repeated journeying back and forth on the ferries between Plymouth and Torpoint. When I saw them described as ‘floating bridges’ on the Ordnance Survey map I knew their role was poetic as much as functional.

In parallel to their external reality – their steel, rust, machinery and rhythmic repetitions – there is a correlation to our inner emotional and more abstract world. For we too have our own mechanisms and plans, and we also have our oscillating rhythms, repeatedly transforming foreign shores into home soil. We and the ferries are therefore facsimiles of each other. Our lives are the accumulation of our shuttling between opposites, knitting back together what was separate. We are all floating bridges.