Painting offers a way of investigating aspects of human experience that resist language. My recent practice is centred on examining the question:  What are the forces that animate us and give us life? ​

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Rather than seeking answers through representation or narrative, I use abstraction as a way to explore the relationship between consciousness, emotion, perception, environment, and the ways these shape our experience of the world.

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Although every work begins with a similar intention, the painting continually presents new conditions to which I respond. It is this evolving dialogue that gives each work its own character.

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Each work emerges as the evidence of that encounter between the experience of being alive and the tangible world around us, revealed through the evolving act of painting.

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I try to channel a dialogue between my perception, my emotional and physical state, and the intuition that guides each act of mark-making.

 

Decisions emerge in response to the painting as it unfolds, allowing each work to reveal unanticipated visual relationships.

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Whilst language enables us to describe much of our world, some of the most significant aspects of the human condition remain resistant to explanation: the subtle and not so subtle currents that shape our experience of being alive. ​

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Painting is a way for me to remain present to that constantly changing relationship: the dialogue between our inner lives and the world around us.

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The paintings are not intended to explain our lived experience, but to embody it; making permanent the signatures of fleeting moments; creating a record that might otherwise pass unnoticed.

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The paintings do not offer fixed interpretations. They ideally create a space in which viewers may recognise something of their own experience—and, perhaps, their connection to something beyond themselves.