Shadow Catcher

This artwork reflects my artistic journey and exploration. I combined various colours and patterns to create a balance between the figure and the background, symbolizing the connection between myself and my surroundings. The figure with a blue head represents calmness and wisdom, and a body covered in a polka dot pattern indicates fun and adventurous nature. The background is a mix of green, blue, and orange colours with different patterns and shapes, expressing diverse and vibrant emotions. I painted it on a canvas with visible brushstrokes, showcasing my confident and expressive style. I titled this artwork "A Shadow Catcher" as it captures the shadows of the background or perhaps of itself and transforms them into something beautiful and meaningful.

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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