Katie Goodwin Greater London, United Kingdom

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I constantly take photos and use them as source material to make videos and animations and prints and paint. I often see beauty in junk and the forgotten and the in-between. Play and humour and collaboration are important in my work as in my life. I am a quiet environmentalist and try to do my bit for the planet. 
I live with my son, my partner, sometimes his daughter and our dog in London.

I make scuzzy landscapes.

These landscapes usually have some form of manmade interruption - perhaps detritus strewn in an artistic way or something defunct left from the past. 

This could be a dog dragging the unseen owner along a zig-zagged cracked road. Or a war time bunker now a place tourists can clamber. Or a rubbish filled skip in front of the sky. Or a decommissioned concrete structure stranded on a beach. 
My paintings are often inspired by my wanderings usually with my dog or my son who occasionally make cameo appearances in my work. The images are sometimes nostalgic, often filmic and quintessentially British. I am a tourist even in my home town recording the peculiar or humorous in the everyday and giving the discarded a new lease of life.

Sometimes I use their what3words location as an abstract title for the work which refers to the exact location where the viewer is standing. puma.flab.sandwiches was the amusing name for the painting of an unplugged ice cream cooler and if you were to go to the exact location you would find yourself inside an indoor sports park in Germany. I not only paint from snaps taken on holiday, I also paint directly onto old photos and postcards. Not your usual picture holiday postcard view but beguiling, I hope, nonetheless.