With an understanding of our current moment as a time which is characterised by a collectively experienced state of uncertainty, my painting practice investigates the connections between intuitive making in the medium of paint and the state of uncertainty this can induce as a way to make sense of our contemporary condition. Paralleling this uncertainty and the changeability that defines our times, I look to the process of painting without predetermined outcomes as a way of establishing an inquiry into methods of responsiveness to this ongoing change. Primarily concerned with studio-led research which examines conscious and unconscious decisions made in the process of painting I focus on the relationship between chaotic and orderly forces, and the space between these two modes of being, to understand how this may be a site of creative renewal. With slight reference to biological form and digital image processes, evoking both synthetic and organic worlds, the works walk the line between the two. The layered surfaces assemble in parts with suggestive forms dissolving before they arrive, the whole surface emerging and dissipating at once from various positions. The act of self-orientation is a prevailing theme in my work, where there is no fixed point of arrival or set vantage to work to or from. This experience of searching, at the core of my process, becomes a locus in which the fragmented and disparately connected world we live in can be slowed down and examined.


Interstitial Ecologies, 2021  
oil and soft pastel on canvas
1940 x 3320 mm

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Information Superhighway, 2021  
oil, oil pastel, soft pastel and collage on canvas  
1660 x 1520 mm

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Plasma Candy, 2021  
oil and soft pastel on canvas  
1590 x 1940 mm

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Self Organisation in Motion, 2021  
oil and oil pastel on canvas  
1640 x 1470 mm