Painting enables me to contemplate my complex environment, including natural and constructed environment, social, cultural as well as political situations all together as one visual phenomenon. I observe relationships of both harmony and conflict within my environment and attempt to fuse the parts together in my paintings.
For example The figures within 'Carpark of Eden' (above) are both primal and cultured, the viewer is implicated by the eye contact of the young woman and perhaps caught somewhere between the primal and cultured state. I paint the phenomenon of life as I experience it. Celebration and loss, love, abundance, conflict and culture together constitute and reframe each experience as a part of a narrative.
In my paintings I include humans as one of the elements of nature.
My painting technique explores the potential of oil paint for both chaos and control. I feel that my work relates conceptually to romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich or William Turner (For those painters, the elements of nature were both beautiful and terrible at once and always divine) but includes a contemporary sense of irony which is also seen in the paintings of contemporary artists such as Eric Fischl and Peter Doig.
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