In my work I explore and make manifest the interior world. Painting is my way of processing societal and personal unease, enabling me to empty the emotion, the excess of my own affective state, out onto the canvas. By portraying emotions and unconscious contents in embodied states, I enable them to inhabit the physical world for examination. I use oil on canvas to create a complex, active and colourful platform to evoke their artform and humour. My work can be interpreted as an invitation to appreciate the complexity that we encapsulate.
My paintings are bold and emotive. They emerge from an open process necessitating lots of painting, marking, erasing, and going back in again, to enable them to breathe. Pentimenti is important to my work for that reason: the works show their emotional history and materiality. The rawness becomes the story as I work, as does the density - altogether it reads as frenzied hyperactivity.
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