Moody Blues

This painting is part of a new series created after a major shift in my creative practice earlier this year. I’ve been exploring spacious, raw passages that leave room for the canvas to breathe while pushing colour into bolder, more emotional territory. Deep blues, bruised violets and flashes of raw light create a sense of movement without resolving into a fixed image.
The work sits in that edge-space I’ve been chasing — where intuition leads, the surface stays honest, and the painting feels alive rather than polished. It’s an atmospheric, layered piece that carries both tension and openness.
Acrylic & china marker on canvas.

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My work explores the tension between wild expression and held space. I build layered, intuitive surfaces and let them find their own internal balance — unresolved, but complete. Colour is my primary language: bold, sometimes reckless. I want my paintings to land with immediacy, then reward slower looking. My process is intuitive, emotionally honest, and resistant to polish. I work primarily in acrylics and mixed media, responding to what each painting needs as it finds its way into being.
I am drawn to the works of Howard Hodgkin, David Hockney, Gerhard Richter and Brian Rutenberg — colourists whose work continues to influence my own.