Skies

“There is a moment in every dawn when light floats, there is the possibility of magic. Creation holds its breath.”

Douglas Adams

How can you not marvel at a beautiful sky? They have always captivated me. Painting the sky was part technical challenge, part personal challenge. To do something I had never done before, in a medium that is still relatively new to me.

I relish the provocations I set myself. I know that what I learn along the way will improve and strengthen my understanding.

Identity

I want to explore different versions of myself. Exploiting gender norms. Reimagining myself, posing visual what-ifs?
I see this very much as the beginning. I know at some point in my ancestral line red hair and blue eyes were a thing.

I find it unsettling to see myself looking so like me but not me. I enjoy being unsettled.

Asemic

These large scale paintings are based on the idea of repetition and deliberate gesture. The use of layers explores translucency and opacity. I’m excited by the new colours created as several overlay each other. I am also investigating obscuring colour by using neutral colours over the top. These appear white but are actually very pale pinks, blues, purples.

The overall composition of each painting owes a lot to improvisation with each mark adding to the rhythm of the painting.

I wanted these paintings to have two lives, I painted layers of ultraviolet paint that show in blue light, creating a different way to see the painting.