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STATEMENT OF WORK
Artist Statement
Artist Statement
My practice is impacted by observation and employes a pictorial language based upon the appropriation of gestural brush work fouynd in Old Master painters: Velasquaez, Goya and Manet. By focusing on observation, shaped by a desire to interpret the complexities of life through painting, each art work reflects a dialogue between inner experience and external reality. Seen collectively from over the years the art works are pictorial statements to the natural freedom of the creative act, spontaneity and a celebration of life. I’m interested in establishing an aesthetic clarity through observation, both seen and felt, of the natural world interpreted via the free-flowing, uninterupted nature paint. Each painting represents a moment in an ongoing dialogue between perception and experience.
Born in Australia to a politically and artistically engaged family. We moved to London when I was young, where a formative encounter with J.M.W. Turner's luminous works at the Tate Museum revealed to me the profound emotional power of painting—an insight that continues to guide my practice. I hold an MFA from the National Art School in Sydney and studied at the New York Studio School. Since 1986, I have lived in Paris, dividing our time between the French capital and the Greek island of Paros.