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STATEMENT OF WORK
My recent work refers to and reinterprets a distinct era of British culture and TV programmes and films – 1970s and 1980s educational programmes for schools, childrens’ films and public information films. Looking back, television broadcasts and films from this time often seemed imbued with a strange, otherly quality. The paintings draw from that, communicating an air of the eerie or disquieting, alongside a nostalgic sense of the familiar, reassuring or comfortable. The paintings therefore are impressions of a half remembered, misremembered or imagined past, existing on the edges of memory and nostalgia where ideas of folklore, the unknown, the wyrd, science fiction and the supernatural are meshed together. Embedded in these paintings is the loss of childhood innocence and with it, the death of a bygone utopia.
The paintings are on coarse textured linen. Oranges and reds are overlaid with greyish greens and lapis lazuli, and importance is attached to contours, shapes and how colours are placed next to one another. The oil paint, thinned with turps, is scrubbed into the weave of the linen, and then may be removed and repainted over and over. Consequently, traces of earlier incarnations often remain visible in the finished picture, articulating the hauntological theme of the past repeating into the present.