01. PRACTICE
Painting memory, identity, and what remains
My paintings consider what remains after people, bodies and places change. They are shaped by experiences that continue into the present, and by the way absence can still be felt as a form of presence. Rather than trying to resolve these experiences, painting gives them somewhere to exist.
02. PAINTING
Layers, movement and discovery
Working with acrylic, plaster and mixed media, I begin by allowing diluted colour to move across the canvas. I turn, build, scrape back and reconsider the surface until figures or other forms begin to appear. Earlier marks and positions may remain visible, allowing the painting to retain a record of what has been altered, covered and revealed
03. THEMES
Presence, distance and the imperfect figure
Figures often appear isolated, partially concealed or separated by expanses of space. They are not characters within fixed stories. They carry traces of altered bodies, remembered people and feelings that resist explanation. The paintings offer fragments rather than answers, leaving room for viewers to recognise something from their own experience.
04. PROJECTS
Painting in a wider context
Individual paintings often develop into wider bodies of work shaped by a particular place, experience or recurring question. Exhibitions and occasional projects allow these connections to unfold across several works and to be encountered within a shared space.
AT THE EDGE OF PLACE Exhibition - Featuring Sentinel: Elk Island
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