Sweet Sharp

City blends to suburbs to fields, woods, then gentle valleys and finally the pulsing London orbital motorway in ‘Out of the Loop,’ the transitional body of work by Daniel Fletcher. The series of paintings explores the continued draw to the landscapes of the city peripheries and seeks to capture the essence and energy of a seasonal, fluid environment—from rural scenes, domestic tropes, and everyday rituals. The abstract works—the colors that sit both in harmony and intentional discourse with each other—are a delicately composed balance between soft and hard, and fast and slow. The rhythm of the creation process reflects that of the subject matter, creating loose yet tightly structured semblances.