statement

In my paintings, I meticulously layer botanical and watercolour inks, watercolours, acrylics, pigments, and sometimes gold leaf, an intricate process that creates depth and texture. I am exploring presence and absence, the duality of time and experience—representing the concept of silence and the passage of time, stimulating the conscious and subconscious mind.

I aim to capture the essence of the natural and the imagined to communicate the substance of intangible experiences and transformations. My work invites individual interpretation and understanding, encouraging a personal connection with the artwork.

My art is a deliberate departure from any conscious, formal visual language in composition and form, working in realms outside established categories, blending the conceptual with the intuitive, research and information with spontaneity and uncontrolled experimentation. It is a search for beauty and stillness intertwined with an appreciation of history, change, and decay. What gets left behind once the painting is finished has importance. Where does the art begin and end?

Within my work, I often study the interplay between our understanding of inward physicality and an abstract outward expression, re-imagining an inner nervous system in landscape form. The ebb and flow of colour, water, inhalations, and exhalations reflect our inner tidal world, the unseen brought from dream to reality.

Or referencing classical sculptures, finding the elemental landscape held within the familiar silhouette, and subverting the smooth contours and classical beauty to express the primordial elements of the material itself. Natural pigments reinforce the organic form, communicating ancient history, geology, experience, and transformation.

I also photograph this molten alchemy – the moments before and during transformation as an imaginary landscape settles into being. This metamorphosis reveals an inner truth of the final painting and the images form a body of work that is simply ‘process’.