Blue Space 1 - Redounding Wave

This work explores our human, everyday experience of the sea and it's effect on our wellbeing. Emerging science has revealed that spending time in ‘blue space’, immersed in the colours of the sea and sky, is proven to improve creative decision making and changes our brainwaves significantly.
‘Blue Space 1 – Redounding Wave’ explores the different ways light and colour expose the essence of a place. What experience, memory, mood and time reveal about a well-known location and in turn how being in a place changes you.
Transparency, opacity, tone and colour are used to form shape and depth. Images are built out of simple elements, focusing on creating a rhythmic dynamic between colour intensity and retreating or advancing hues.
The abstraction that results does not intend to dispense with a recognisable subject, but to create works which explore slices of light and colour while still bearing a relationship to the original object.

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As an artist I am inspired by themes of abundance and memory viewed through the lens of the natural world around me. The vibrancy and luminosity of fruit ellicits memories of my childhood, favourite family recipies, shared experiences and the joy to be found in the small everyday pleasures of growing and harvest.

Intrinsic to my art practice is creating works that raise the opportunity for discussions on issues vital to all the community, mental health, climate change, sustainability and valueing our environment.

Although I work predominately in oils, the concept determines the medium and my abstractions are often acrylic based.