About
I have always created. Over the years I’ve explored a range of artistic disciplines including painting, drawing, sculpture, mosaic, and photography.
Though painting has been my passion, an intrinsic fascination with mixed media and its experimental nature has influenced my recent body of work which explores the possibilities of how various media might come together.
My work challenges the artistic norms of artwork falling within a singular discipline, and questions, “What constitutes a painting?”
Through my investigation and process, I have integrated painting, sculpture and photography to craft works that blur the boundaries between painting and sculpture. These sculptural paintings thus exist as a fusion, a visual narrative where the organic, the textured and the digital coexist and interact.
’These constructs, exploring landscape, time, memory, and connection, are a fusion of texture and imagery, an ode to nature, a sensitive look at the details of our environment one might otherwise miss.’
Process
Each work is original, handcrafted and the result of many intricate steps.
I begin with an abstract painting and a variety of original photographs of textures I find in my everyday; tree bark, leaves, rocks, sand, water.
Both media are merged digitally and manipulated, later to be printed on metal. This meticulous process is contrasted with the layering of texture and colour in the contrasting painted forms. The result is artwork that seamlessly integrates textured and smooth, high gloss and matt, photography and painting, blurring the line between traditional and contemporary techniques.