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STATEMENT OF WORK
The paintings are built from layers of strong colour which, in relation to each other, can result in either an exaduration or muting of tone and create a hovering depth or flattened space. These formal qualities are in conversation with the narratives in the work, of people in relation to each other. The space around the singular figures is important, as well as the reflected light and the rhythm of their collective shapes.
The occasionaly fragmented spaces in the paintings are influenced by the view from a top-floor bus window; of various lights and reflections of city scenes, and figures layered on top of each other in shifting scales and perspectives. I often have lampposts recurring as a motif, acting as a substitute guiding light and a moment of temporary, yet unreliable, clarity for the figures moving between them. There is a tension in the works between the desire to be seen and the fear of becoming the subject of observation.
My process of working is led by improvisation and made without direct source imagery, so the figuration is shaped through the particularities of my mind and formed through many layers and alterations over time. I have faith in this process of responding to the present moment and the surface in front of me, which allows my imagination to remain in conversation with the material.