Lorna Carvill is a London based, Scottish artist who holds a BA in Textiles and an MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins (2020).
Lorna explores painting as a material object within an expanded notion of contemporary painting. She uses optical and compositional elements such as form and colour to express the evocative potential of the tactile, sensual and physically affective elements of an artwork.
Lorna’s practice is process-driven and experimental and incorporates painting, three-dimensional and installation. Her work reflects upon the interconnectedness of the physical and natural worlds, and uses the concept found in Celtic folklore of ‘thin spaces’ as a departure point from which to explore ideas of liminality and ontology which can be achieved through painting.
The expoundings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty in his ‘Phenomenology of Perception’, and Alois Reigl’s debate ( in 'Late Roman Art Industry’, 1901 ) discussing how paintings can perform both as the haptic and the optic, are two meaningful components which underpin this research.
lornacarvill@gmail.com