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’s art practice explores the physical world and how we exist corporeally and spiritually within it. The expoundings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty in his ‘Phenomenology of Perception’, and Alois Reigl’s debate ('Late Roman Art Industry’) discussing how paintings can perform both as the haptic and the optic, are two meaningful components which inform her research.
Lorna’s practice is process-driven and experimental, utilising combinations of mark-making, drawing, painting, casting, cladding, dipping, stitching and dyeing to construct two-dimensional and three-dimensional paintings which are often presented to the viewer in assemblages or installations. Through this expanded notion of contemporary painting, Lorna 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.
lornacarvill@gmail.com