Asking Questions
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My paintings are vibrant, rich, multilayered, textured depictions of place and journey, both imagined and from experience. They are my intuitive response to transitory, liminal spaces between nature and human construction, between structure and fluidity and between growth and decay. For me abstract painting is such a good way to explore the non-tangible, those experiences or phenomena that just don’t have words or symbols to describe them…. yet. I see the process of painting as the forming of symbols by which you the viewer may engage.
I invite questions and conversations about our relationship with the environment each other and with ourselves.
My inspirations are wide ranging. Some come from savouring the worn and faded elements of human intervention in the landscape; from, say, discarded farm machinery or buildings, to waning, rusting industrial installations; from ancient paths worn over time, to weathered fence posts wrapped in barbed wire. Each encounter holds a sense of history and a story.
Other series emerge from my intuitive sense of our inner landscapes. I’m often “listening“ to the nudges and the felt sense of my experiences. I have learned to let these guide my work without needing to knowing the outcome. For me this level of uncertainty is both unnerving and yet hugely creative. Perhaps you can relate?
Painting allows symbolism and story to emerge engaging you the viewer in an on-going conversation.
I enjoy walking in varied landscapes, which in turn, provides a powerful impetus for my creative process. I’m often making marks in sketchbooks as I walk, to register observations, sensations, movements, thoughts and feelings. I may take photographs that record a particular shape or pattern. Back in my studio in the Chiltern Hills, my sketchbooks and photography become springboards to start to explore ideas and possibilities on paper, canvas or wood panel. In this process I use multiple layers of collage, paint and mark making that capture textures, forms, patterns, shapes, gestures, lines and edges. Suggested avenues to follow reveal themselves, others are abandoned. A relationship with the work evolves as elements take shape, are concealed, scraped back and reworked.
My Painting Process.
The direction of a painting, for me, is not predetermined. At the beginning the outcome is unknown, and for some time, ambiguous; I am constantly asking “what if…..?” I like the tension that comes by being bounded and contained by the medium and the palette and yet uncertain as to where the painting process will take me. Gradually form and identity begin to emerge from this, as the composition resolves and I begin to understand what the work will be.
I get excited about what you see in my images. What do they provoke in you? I’d love to hear how you interpret my work…..?
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I believe that owning and engaging with unique original art is a reflection of our individual personal subjectivity. It helps us know who we are and how we see ourselves.