About

My current body of painting explores surface tension through gesture and space, and it rethinks the historical context of painting today. Each of my paintings interweaves tonal colour planes throughout fleshy, coiling gestures. These curving, sensuous forms cluster into hives of pulsating drama before spinning out into areas of harmonious depth. This process is an attempt to build a fictional landscape and atmosphere of fantasy. Inherently intuitive and unplanned, each gesture responds to the last, mapping out an unknown terrain, creating a heightened sense of tension and release. The final …