I make paintings in a variety of media but with a strong emphasis on watercolour; my work hopes to establish a link between the reality and phenomena of the landscape around me and that of the viewer’s memory and imagination.
By focusing on gesture, chance and often gravitational processes, I investigate the dynamics of landscape, and explore what landscape and natural phenomena can mean to us. Rather than presenting a factual reality, I aim to conjure an atmospheric mood to reach out to the viewer’s memory and imagination.
My paintings feature a combination of strong composition and a tendency to conceal the brushstroke in favour of a flow-based, gravity-led and organic creation of forms.
By increasingly applying abstraction to landscape, I wish to create ambiguous visual motifs by means of both constraint and vigorous gesture, requiring the viewer to make their own decisions about subject or location.
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