Figurative painter.
I use painting and drawing to make sense of a life overwhelmed by images. Day to day I see too much too quickly. Working with images slowly lets me hold onto what I see, look closely and try to understand. I look for patterns and connections and I question this instinct. I work with my own photos and observational drawings, my family photo archive and imagery from other paintings; I pull from my immediate environment and from the images lodged in my mind. I’m interested in quiet moments of uncertainty, play, secrets, (false) memory, drawing, the tendency to find patterns and sense where there are none. My materials choices are guided by an interest in gesture, colour and mark making.
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