I enjoy the anticipation and unknowing of how a painting will turn out. Expecting the painting to take any direction and allowing the paint to paint itself is an exciting journey because I never know when I can confidently say the painting is finished. I push the parallel between boundary and freedom. I paint from intuition, allowing marks and gestures to flow freely. The marks, forms, and colour are an expression of the relationship between painting and self at that moment in time.  I don’t shy away from colour, this drives my practice, I enjoy experimenting with combinations and exaggerating what I see and feel. I engage the audience by encouraging an open interpretation, inviting them in to experience a moment of time along an artwork's journey. Painting on a large scale and at times filling a room to create an immersive painted installation amplifies the space, increasing depth and illusion within the work.

 

The juxtaposition of form and colour collaborates and forms the relationship between each painting. Translating colours from one to another creates harmony, which directs the eye from one to the other breaking the boundary where the painting stops and allowing it to continue and inspire how you interpret the next.  

 

I see my whole practice as abstract representations of my joyful personality, which manifests the fundamental nature of my relationship with painting. Allowing the paint to paint itself, allowing acts to happen in response to the previous. The drive colour gives me fuels my curiosity about what could happen, not having a second judgment before the action takes place is the essence and core of how I work. 

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“Paintings are there to be experienced, they are events. They are also to be meditated on and to be  enjoyed by the senses; to be felt through the eye…”

John Hoyland