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Colour has always felt like a current of energy to me - vivid, exuberant, impossible to ignore. I’m curious about the way materials work together. What if? is a question I ask that keeps me open to taking risks, seeking out solutions and discovering unexpected combinations in the making. Painting is a key starting point for creating a visual library of marks, images and gestures that I translate into different mediums and materials using a fusion of processes and techniques. 

 

Patterns caught in passing, textures, marks that leave their trace and responses to music create ideas that float and percolate over time, shifting and settling until they form a rhythm I can almost see and they feel ready to turn into something more tangible. The making is a meditative process that arrives at a point where a piece starts to work and assembling the components becomes repetitive. Ultimately I'm looking for a balance between complexity and elegance and it is often in the editing and taking away of elements that the final piece comes into view.  

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Favourite artists 

Albert Irvin, Howard Hodgkin, Gillian Ayres, Barbara Rae, Mali Morris, Hella Jongerius, Jacob Hashimoto, Dale Chihuly, James Turrell, Liz West, Jim Drain, Isamu Noguchi, Ruth Asawa.

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