My paintings reflect a quiet meditation on the passage of time. The notion of what is real and what is imagined as we return again and again to half remembered histories informs my practice as a painter and as a carver. The found materials and objects that I surround myself with as I work have a certainty – they can be relied on. Each piece of slate, lead and rusted metal has a physical connection to a real person, time and place now lost. They are tactile aide memoirs. Each new painting is created taking the dimensions and scale from these objects as a starting point for the shapes used and the marks made as the layers build and are over-painted hinting at what might lie beneath.
Remnant 04, oil paint, gesso and charcoal on canvas, 100x100cm
Remnant 02, oil paint, gesso and charcoal on canvas, 100x100cm
Remnant 05, oil paint, gesso and charcoal on canvas, 100x100cm
The spaces in between 01, oil paint, gesso and charcoal on canvas, 100x100cm
The spaces in between 02, oil paint, gesso and charcoal on canvas, 100x100cm
Sentimental obsession 02, oil paint, gesso and charcoal on canvas, 100x100cm
Echo 06, oil paint, gesso and charcoal on canvas, 100x100cm
Linger 01, oil paint and gesso on canvas, 60x80cm
Linger 04, oil paint and gesso on canvas, 60x80cm
Linger 03, oil paint and gesso on canvas, 60x80cm
Still or receding (diptych), oil paint, gesso and charcoal on canvas, 30x60cm
Some steps barely leave a trace (diptych), oil paint, gesso and charcoal on canvas 30x60cm
Traces 02, oil paint, gesso and charcoal on canvas 60x60cm
Fragment, oil paint, gesso and charcoal on canvas 50x50cm
Hiding Places 01, oil paint, gesso and charcoal on canvas 30x30cm
Somewhere in between 02, oil paint, gesso and charcoal on linen 50x50cm
Some steps barely leave a trace 03, oil paint, gesso and charcoal on linen 50x50cm
Some steps barely leave a trace 02, oil paint, gesso and charcoal on linen 50x50cm
Hiding Places 02, oil paint, gesso and charcoal on canvas 50x50cm