Large scale, intricate abstract paintings explore memory of feeling within the natural environment, encouraging immersion, escapism and an internal reconnection with singular moments of presence. The place where this stored perception from memory crosses with a more fantastical imagining of an undefined place, perhaps before or after life. Despite the structure, perspective and gravity of landscape being subtle or absent there is a deliberate trace of marks and gestures that evoke it. Opp art influence fuels the mark making, decreasing and increasing density, repetition, colour placement, from large palette knifes to single hair brushes, encouraging the experience of shifting scale.
Exhibitions
2024 OpenArtFolke 24, Folkestone
2020 Pushing Paper, British Museum, London
2017 Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London
2015 Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London
2014 John Moores Painting Prize, Liverpool
2013 Connecting Worlds, UBM Building, London
2013 Working on the Inside, Drawing Room, London
2012 Alter, Vegas Gallery, London
2011 Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood space, London