About
Since graduating in Fine Art at De Montfort University I have continued to further my practice in abstract process painting and exploring the boundaries of what we consider to be typical artist mediums.
I am most intrigued with how the volatile materials resist and expand with against each other; creating organic forms and shapes often reminiscent to cellular structures or aerial photographs.
A selection of harmonious colour pallets are employed as a means to emphasise these chemical reactions, while a struggle of control between painter and paints takes place. The viscosity of the materials can often result in the Initial composition been overruled, making the art of constraint just as important as the act of painting itself.
“... What the painting finally looks like is thus determined by several factors including the viscosity of the fluids and their behavior under gravitational pull, the way in which ambient and local temperatures affect such things as rates of evaporation or chemical reaction, the miscibility or otherwise of the liquids involved, the quantities used and the order in which they are applied.” - Keith Tyson