2019

My paintings are multi-layered and the process of making them often feels torturous and fraught with uncertainty and doubt. I try to paint with impunity, beginning each painting with no fixed idea of the journey it is about to take. Becoming less attached to outcome allows me to take more risks, as I often obliterate what I’ve just spent hours painting. I have to trust that the brush marks and the legacy of random, accidental texturing of early layers will suggest my next moves, as I glide over raised sections with a wide dry brush. Meaning is derived from the process of painting itself.

Pentimento Series

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A perverse inward reflection
A perverse inward reflection

75cm W x 75cm H x 3.5 D, acrylics on canvas

Viewing place as it appears to be
Viewing place as it appears to be

75cm W x 75cm H x 3.5 D, acrylics on canvas

Seeking the unseen
Seeking the unseen

75cm W x 75cm H x 3.5 D, acrylics on canvas, finalist in 2019 Walker & Hall Art Awards

Sensing feelings arising
Sensing feelings arising

75cm W x 75cm H x 3.5 D, acrylics & mixed media on canvas

Fracturing the narrative
Fracturing the narrative

75cm W x 75cm H x 3.5cm D, acrylics on canvas

Displacing warmer air
Displacing warmer air

75cm W x 75cm H x 3.5cm D, acrylics on canvas

Hiding in plain sight
Hiding in plain sight

75cm W x 75cm H x 3.5cm D, acrylics on canvas

Roiling Series

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Virulent undercurrent
Virulent undercurrent

75cm W x 75cm H x 3.5cm D, acrylics on canvas

Plunging into the vortex
Plunging into the vortex

75cm W x 75cm H x 3.5cm D, acrylics on canvas

Running scared
Running scared

60cm W x 60cm H x 2.5cm D, acrylics on MDF board

Look what you made me do
Look what you made me do

40 W x 40cm H x 2.5cm D, acrylics on MDF board

Not following your instructions
Not following your instructions

40 W x 40cm H x 2.5cm D, acrylics on MDF board

Messy, chaotic infestation
Messy, chaotic infestation

75cm W x 75 cm H x 3.5cm D, acrylics on canvas

The unspeakable consequences of chaos
The unspeakable consequences of chaos

75cm W x 75cm H x 3.5cm D, acrylics on canvas

Inner Mapping Series

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Cartography of the inner city
Cartography of the inner city

60cm W x 75cm H X 3.5CM d, acrylics & mixed media on canvas

Interior weather map
Interior weather map

75cm W x 75cm H, acrylics & mixed media on canvas