Resolution: Sublimate is an on-going series about the use of sublimation in art. It is concerned with the necessity of beauty (as I define it to be) in the face of our self-murderous drive to turbo-charge the meltdown of our natural world. These abstracts are related to the landscape paintings of the Romantic movement of the early decades of the 19th Century. Nature was portrayed as violent and harrowing yet the belief was that through the “stunning of the soul, all that imprints a feeling of terror, leads to the sublime” (Denis Diderot). The Romantic artists were responding to the the rapid societal transformation brought about by the full force of the Industrial Revolution. And in our world now catastrophic natural events will not lead us to the Sublime. We need ways of living that salve the wounds of the certain knowledge of deluges, fires, plagues and more. My work is simply to distil and contain the chaos, to fill my paintings with these elemental forces and hopefully make of them a salve of beauty as I define it to be. All images courtesy the artist and Articulate.