Movement and Stillness: Recent Paintings



Someone recently said to me "your work feels like things I’ve seen before but that don’t exist".

My work is abstract but there are moments within the paintings that suggest recognizable elements. Eventually these elements become less about certainty and more about interpretation, creating a relationship between the real and the perceived. Each mark and pour of pigment is a reaction to the previous, a visual conversation embedded in the process.


 Origin, mixed media on paper, 2021 

 The soft layers may create space for a visual meditation while the tactile drips might remind you of the painting's physicality. All together conjuring a cascade of associations.  


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 Cascade, mixed media on canvas, 2021 

 

Flare, mixed media on canvas, 2021



 The new pieces approach color and mark making in an unexpected way. Splashes of neon ground the compositions while informal strokes of spray paint create points of connection throughout the pictorial plane.  

 

Twilight, mixed media on canvas, 2021
 
Sporadic marks and organic shapes create fluid compositions as I allow paint to glide across the surface in unchoreographed strokes. The visual outcome exhibits the presence of change and emergence with a sense of impulsion.

“Movement and stillness. Gravity and growth. Accident and control. Matter and spirit. Only life itself can hold together such contradictory forces within the simplicity of form without dissolving into chaos.”₁







 

 

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₁Paul Jenkins, “Anatomy of a Cloud”