Rhythm 1

Seminal abstract expressionist painter Larry Poons describes the process of painting as a series of mistakes. My abstract practice can be similarly summed up. The work is built up from intuitive decisions, painting with fingers and hands in acrylic paint over multiple sessions. Sometimes the canvas is laid out on the floor and sometimes pinned to the wall. It is a process of following those mistakes of movement and gesture to find the painting, allowing it to reveal itself. The photos do not capture the impact of the scale, colour and movement of the piece.

Painted on triple-primed duck canvas with high quality acrylic paint. The canvas is currently unstretched and should be order through Bluethumb's stretching service. Once stretched it can be displayed framed or unframed.

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I am an artist based in Perth/Boorloo, Western Australia, working in a site-responsive landscape practice that explores the intersection of site, land, place and people within a post-Colonial Australian imaginary. In 2022 I completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Curtin University, and an Honours (First Class) in 2024.

Throughout this time I have developed a methodology for an alternative landscape painting rooted in embedded making and indexical mark making techniques. Embedded making entails spending extended periods of time within the environment, making work within the land itself through observational drawing, impressionistic watercolour painting and journalistic reflection. Indexical mark making is a way of working that seeks to include nature and land as an active participant in the production of the artwork by allowing nature to create its own marks on the paper by using found ochres, nature printing, or dragging large pieces of paper through the environment, along the dirt ground or against burnt trees and mallees. In doing so, the work records movement through and within the land, capturing the collaborative interactions between nature and myself as an artist, and allowing the unique physical character of the landscape to express itself through the artwork.