Profile
I am primarily a painter who is also interested in working within a variety of disciplines particularly mixed media, assemblage and photography. My recurring themes are about my relationship and feelings towards the landscape. Because I am a process led artist I work intuitively with a broad range of materials allowing the media I use to dictate the direction of the work.
I have an ongoing fascination with the surface appearance of objects and use my camera as a visual diary to record marks, lines, textures, and traces that are left behind as evidence of the natural world and our human presence. I believe these marks and traces bypass much of our intellectual thinking and appeal to our intuitive spiritual self.
My paintings emerge through a process of wiping, smearing, scratching and scraping. I take off almost as much as I put on and this striping and paring back reveals previous layers, allowing me to build up a history of marks and veils of colour. The overall effect creates a surface that requires closer inspection in order to reveal passages of time and thought: layered and interwoven, arbitrary and yet interconnected.