Recent Works

'Testimonial'

Can we listen to the voices of the displaced and feel secure? Can we sense their presence? Can we imagine what it feels like to be in another's skin?The artwork provides a range of different ‘skins’. The testimonials are the personal response. Finding the place of gratitude, a feeling of receiving help and a sense of stability in difficult conditions, a place of community, redeems something. Growth despite adversity.

Title: Vedic-21 'Testimonial', Mixed media collage on canvas, 121 x 121cm

I connect this to the idea of embodiment, a condition from which a central place of our experience emerges. The place in which we find ourselves can challenge our sense of what we are. The acid yellow and garish, unnatural colours. desert imagery, simple habitation, the branching form over an ordered fragmentation of tiles combining impersonal forces with the personal. A warning to the present from a possible future.April 2024

Inferno

Heliogene

Title: 'Heliogene', Synthetic polymer on canvas, 110 x 220cm

'The title of the work was suggested by the writhing shapes of sunspots on the solar surface and the processes by which they emerge and develop.' Changing the organic shapes by adding a geometric component to them subverts the natural expectations and creates a different vector of energy. I am committed to experimenting with the idea behind this process and of holding the forms in this zone between the organic and the geometric because it naturally then poses questions and creates a visual dialogue that is somewhat unique. The careful choice of colour then adds the necessary vibrancy in combination with the way these shapes interlock.'