Dorian Walton

My practice centres on abstraction drawn from industrial structures, decay and memory. Through printmaking, charcoal and sculpture, I explore fragmentation, repetition and erosion as visual language. I am interested in the tension between strength and collapse — how engineered forms weather, break apart and are reassembled.

My work centres on process: mark-making through the scratching of copper plates, sanding surfaces, and layering charcoal, which becomes an act that mirrors time and wear. Structured lines suggest machinery and architecture, while disrupted marks introduce instability and vulnerability.

Abstracting the shapes and forms that come from the man-made landscape gives me a way to explore the way man made becomes an object for nature to slowly decay through weather and time, and to eventually repossess its land back from the hands of man.