About

Resonate series

My abstract work has grown out of my seascape paintings. I wanted to explore the same sense of memory but concentrate instead on the intermingling relationships of landscape. We often look back at places we’ve been and recall shapes, line, curves and how it felt, not the fine detail. This series of paintings are based on these recollections, the soft reflections and glimpses against strong shape and line. I choose to use rich and earthy pigments which tie them in a landscape setting and the continued use of dripping paint connect them to water with its continuous movement. They involve months of building layers of oil paint, this process allows the canvas to gain a sense of depth and history, I leave glimmers and hints of each layer to create a sense of past, a deeper sense of memory, and a canvas where colour, shape and marks resonates within the space. Their purpose is to evoke a sense of calm, a sense of peace and of harmony.

Repose and Connection series

“My new series of work ‘Repose’ meaning a state of rest or tranquility, distills my quest to find equilibrium and harmony within the space.  Like the connection series I have abstracted my more gestural work back to line, shape and colour. The elements should be in sync, sit with each other, just as we seek connections that harmonise with us, these connecting shapes sit in meditative state. Connection series hopes to find pleasure and calm in the way shape and colour sit with each other. I think of them as painted sculptures, they have weight, balance and structure, they have presence and purpose, which takes months of exploration to achieve. These works connect back to my influences from the abstract expressionists who reinterpreted the landscape around them, such as Barbara Hepworth, Naum Gabo and Ben Nicholson.