Fundraising Auction Art Academy London 2024 - Timed

2022
Oil on canvas
101cm x 81cm

Joshua Armitage (b. Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, 1986) graduate of Manchester School of Art and the Royal College of Art, lives and works in London.

Joshua Armitage’s work aims to merge sensory experiences and diverse drawing and painting techniques, aiming to evoke remembered sensations. Place holds a fascination for him, serving as a focal point for exploring how architecture intertwines with spirituality, memory, and emotion. The Latin phrase 'genius loci,' refers to the powerful, protective spirit of a place and encapsulates this sentiment. Paul Nash referenced it in relation to landscapes or landmarks infused with a distinctive ambiance, sensing a spiritual presence in certain locations—an intangible magic and a feeling of existing outside of time, themes resonating with Armitage’s own work.