Tom Cartmill
Artist in Reading, Berkshire
My work deals with visual perception, in particular the fact that we can receive conflicting information from a given visual stimulus. The preconceived assumptions of eye and brain are challenged, raising questions about the subconscious and how we interpret what we're looking at. Memory plays an integral part in how we perceive the world around us and my current series of paintings Remembered Present addresses this concern. Change through time and the inevitable accumulation of knowledge are themes that have underpinned my practice from early on.