ABOUT ME

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Colour has always felt like a current of energy to me - vivid, exuberant, impossible to ignore and I’m curious about the way materials work together. Patterns caught in passing, textures, marks that leave their trace and responses to music are all food for my visual vocabulary. Ideas 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.

 

 ‘What if’ is a question I am always asking that keeps me open to taking risks, seeking out solutions and discovering unexpected combinations. It allows the process to give something back of its own. Painting is a key starting point in creating a visual library of marks, images and gestures that I translate into different mediums and materials using a fusion of processes and techniques. Learning the craft of textile printing in a traditional way taught me chemistry and the science of colour. It also finely tuned a way of thinking in layers that has always come naturally to me so embracing digital technology in some parts of my work has allowed me to innovate further and make pieces that could not be made any other way. 

 

Making is also a meditative process that arrives at the point in which a piece starts to work and assembling the components becomes repetitive. Ultimately I'm looking for a balance between complexity and elegance so 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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