Statement

My practice is concerned with the visceral quality of oils, accessing a vitality of mark-making on the picture plane by pushing the boundaries between accident and control. In recent work the paint is more vigorous, enabling a process-based dialogue.

The work investigates how we absorb the fiction of media images as ‘reality’ and intends to demonstrate that the primary subject of a work is not reality but merely its photographic representation. Painting, as a gesture or fragment, has the capacity to engage the viewer in an experience of seeing.


My work is informed by artists like Gerhard Richter, Luc Tuymans, Marlene Dumas and Chantal Joffe and I am interested not only in the conceptual concerns of these artists but also their mark-making strategies and methodology.