The Practice
Rooted in abstraction, the work unfolds through an intuitive process of layering, gesture, repetition and erasure — each mark responding to what already exists on the surface.
The Practice
- Process, Material, Intention
My work is rooted in abstraction and unfolds through an intuitive process of layering, gesture, repetition, and erasure. Working primarily with acrylics and mixed media on large-scale canvases, I build paintings gradually, allowing each mark to respond to what already exists on the surface.
Scale plays an important role in my practice. Large canvases allow me to engage with painting as a physical encounter. The movement, reach, balance, and weight of the body become active elements within the work.
While brushes and palette knives remain part of my vocabulary, I am equally drawn to everyday objects and found materials. Released from their original purpose, these familiar forms become instruments of mark-making and inquiry.
Layering is central to the way each painting evolves. Surfaces are built, disrupted, concealed, and revealed. Areas are repeatedly painted over, scraped back, and reworked, allowing traces of earlier decisions to remain visible.
Colour functions not as description but as experience. It creates emotional atmospheres, shifts perception, and establishes relationships between tension and harmony. Recent work has increasingly centred around red through the ongoing body of work, Return to Red.
At the heart of my practice is an interest in what remains unseen: the emotional weight carried within the body, the traces of experience embedded in memory. Each work emerges through listening rather than knowing, responding rather than directing.
