My practice is rooted in abstract expressionism: I paint how I feel. I use my practice to explore my depths and my joys. I use it to explore my middle ground and baseline. I use it as an escape when the world gets too much. I use it as a lifeline to reach other people. It is an indulgent and often draining practice.
Due to the nature of my practice, none of my paintings are planned. My paintings are a continuation of each other. An ongoing conversation. I work on multiple pieces at once and apply paint in layers until the piece is finished. There exists an ongoing battle, a push and pull, between me and the space within the surface. Whereby I am pushing and pulling the painting in to being. Listening to the feel of the space being created and responding in turn. Working in unison with the paint to create what needs to be created. Each canvas is its own realm, its own window, with its own constraints, voice and volume.
The process of automatic painting regularly comes in to play but never intentionally; I enter a 'flow state' and before I know it the painting has been taken in a completely different direction. Over time, I have come to appreciate this as an important part of my practice as it always takes me to places I didn't know painting could.
There is an intoxicating magic that exists in painting. It is an exhilarating and addictive practice: I am completely in awe of the ability of paint and the language it can conjure. I am always in pursuit of the possibility of what will be produced. The best and most beautiful explanation of which comes from artist Philip Guston "I want to make something I never saw before and be changed by it."
It is my aim to resonate something honest and deeply human.