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My Practice

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I am drawn to peripheral places within our built environments, places where I can explore the relationship it has  to the nature existing alongside it, plants, landscaping, sense of time, and traces such as litter, or activity remaining. Often the spaces I pay attention to could easily be passed by. They might be overgrown, crumbling, littered, and out of the way. Interested in the quietness and transience of such places amongst sometimes busy surroundings, along with the time of these places, how moments might be present now but buried, or shifted later. 

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Current working practice has sought to reflect greater physical connection to a place within the work. Doing this by taking the work outside to work on, so it is explored both in situ and in the studio. Most recently responding to certain parts of a garden, drawn in particular to the back of it where it is wilder, along with a greenhouse, which provides an interesting structure in relation to the garden space beyond and around it. Working with this space for the last year has meant I have observed it changing throughout the year, how colours and the space of it has shifted, the gradual emptying of it during the autumn/winter and blooming of it in spring/summer, and how this affects the light and colours in it. 

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In these newer works I have been using acrylic, charcoal, and some oil sticks. I have really enjoyed layering these up, painting and in some cases using charcoal, or in the larger pieces oils sticks too to draw into the canvas.