My art practice is rooted in abstraction in the physical realm and informed by my immediate surrounding environment of the Crawford College of Art and Design Sharman Crawford Street building. I focus on painting in an expanded way emphasizing that modern painting today is no longer confined to traditional boundaries. Painting's inescapable relationship to surface has inspired my current work. Fusing material observation with intuition, and association with a familiar environment, allows me to create abstract paintings that respond to the building’s surfaces, and in the colours and marks around me. By staining canvas with spillages and splats of paint, and analysing different surfaces deemed insignificant from my environment, allows for the creation of visual representations which contemplate various layers. Utilising both drawing and painting I can create artworks that embrace colour and incorporate tracings, staining fabric with thin veils of colour in a spontaneous manner, while layering with marks helps me navigate and create meditative works that reference time, place and human engagement with physical structures and surfaces.
