Driven by impulse and material process, this introspective work
captures personal yet ambiguous engagements with the everyday. Through
investigating improvisation and chance within painting, works effortlessly
blend materiality, image, and the inner self to create enigmatic compositions
that hold a lively balance between colour, form, and expressive linear marks.
Resulting works are often suggestive and comical, acting as innuendoes to the
body or natural landscape.
Working in the studio, stimulation is naturally dependant on
material, therefore it is essential to maintain a playful and experimental
approach. Thriving off intuition, painting is guided by the act of painting
itself. Intentions for paintings are undetermined but always aim to conduct
enquiries into the materiality of paint. By adding, obliterating, and
reassembling, imagery emerges from a history of various marks, embracing the
unknowability and accidental within painting. Once found, repeated
methodologies must be disrupted, usually by introducing alternative mediums
such as house paint, enamel, charcoal, or paper which offer inventive and
intriguing tensions within the surface. Whether that being thick areas of paint
against translucent layers or an unexpected dot of blue next to a larger
outline, the works achieve an exciting dynamism between opposition,
simultaneously emphasising depth while reaffirming the painting's
two-dimensionality.