Red Herring

This series of work is all about colour, shapes and mixed media layers applied, scratched back and reworked to create an emphasis on everyday belongings. They offer hints relating to the lifestyle of unseen inhabitants and provide aesthetic statements within domestic setting. These colourful and decorative paintings are strongly influenced by work of William Scott, Elizabeth Blackadder, Paul Gaugin and Brett Whiteley. This work is made on heavy duty paper, its framed and ready to be hanged. Frames are white, black or wood tones.

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My practice is informed by ideas of abstraction and figuration, it is an exploration of physicality of paint and the act of ‘doing’. The process is the one that embraces accident and ambiguity. I want my paintings to describe a feeling, evoke a response or excite the viewer’s imagination. This body of work is also a reinterpretation of the everyday or ordinary object and subject; young girls busy with the mobile phone, people at the beach etc. Obscured and faceless imagery of the subjects are confronting and mysterious.
The work is inbuilt with layers of symbolic imagery open to the interpretation of the viewer. I reference images from textbooks, magazines and the internet as a base to capture fleeting moments encountered in everyday life. I want my paintings to be a vehicle to reflect upon what it is to be human, seeking connections, testing resilience, acknowledging frailties.
See collaborative works with Linda Lee under Studio7 Collective