Crowded Mind no.5 - Framed

I recently returned from a trip overseas and all I could think about was what I should paint next. I've discovered that by distancing myself from painting (even though I hate doing that) actually provides me time to think of new ideas...perhaps too many though. While it's great to have so many new ideas they seem to come too quickly and I end up in a state of mental congestion. To remedy this I decided to revisit an old idea and paint over it to form something new. The multiple portraits in these small works convey the multitude of ideas in my mind that I have to wrestle with, maybe in painting out this feeling of mental congestion it will allow me to think more clearly.

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I find that my art enables me to express elements of my world that can't necessarily be seen by the naked eye, its an attempt at conveying something a bit intangible. Abstraction is the primary way I communicate my ideas and experiences in art.
The naive and somewhat primitive lines, shapes, colours and textures I use are my attempt at capturing the atmosphere, personality or feeling of a place or person I have encountered in my life, realism or a photograph in my opinion doesn't always capture these elements of the world.
I feel that my art brings these to the surface...it shows the soul of something, somewhere, or someone. Perhaps you will see someone you know within my strange works, maybe even yourself.