In his new gouache drawings, Jason Dunda blends landscape and figuration to construct worlds populated by anthropomorphic geography. Dunda invents rollinghills and steep cliffs based upon what he considers 'critters' - badgers, chinchillas, chipmunks, and other small furbearing beasts. These hybrid rodent landforms are at once miniature and gigantic, natural and simulated, ephemeral and enduring. With a limited but sophisticated colour palette Dunda takes his visual cues for this series from various types of illustration, from Walt Disney to William Audobon.
A suite of oil paintings are constructed from a mixture of imagery sourced from life, obtained from photographs, or appropriated from other paintings. Through the distortion of scale and the manipulation of spatial illusion, the works are convincingly impossible.
