My creative practice is devoted to drawing and painting. I am fascinated by the complexity of pattern and repetition that comprises even the most anonymous of spaces, I use “mark making” as a way of translating this understanding of the places that I explore. With no desire to illustrate a scene and through a process of natural abstraction I begin to create an image built upon the layering, grouping and re-grouping of shape and line — organic and geometric, concealed and revealed.
I am often drawn to places where man-built structures meet organic matter, finding inspiration in the echoes of pattern and repetition between both of these elements. I explore these ideas through drawing and painting simultaneously, the continual flux between allowing one process to inform the other. Ultimately, the mixed layering of washes and brush strokes or shading and marking, allows me to produce a dynamic image that promotes subtlety.
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