My practice is going through a period of renewal.
My paintings had always been rooted in abstract expressionism: I painted how I felt. I needed this for a long time but for the past year my relationship with painting has evolved. I no longer paint how I feel.
For some time I have known the style of work I needed to create, I just wasn't ready. There's this space within me that feels endless with a boundless energy. It's a space that I have painted in the past but ran from. It is the style that made paint and colour become something more. The style that made painting feel most alive. More technically speaking, the style is a mixture of hard edge and colour-field painting.
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. Each canvas is its own realm, its own window, with its own constraints, voice and volume.
I occasionally create paintings with writing in. To me, these are a part of the same world as my usual work. I've always had an interest in how writing can be used within art to produce a powerful or emotional message. The writing itself comes from my writing practice; predominantly it is about myself but I also write from other peoples perspectives. The human condition is of great interest to me, it can be a great unifier.
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."