#artspace studios

"My practice encompasses paint, pattern and collage using paper, material and mostly oil paint. I work loosely from photography, found imagery and imagination. My work explores the built environment and lived experience in these spaces. The work is an emotive response to places I inhabit or frequent or pass by, spaces I find interesting or dull, that provoke an emotion, memory or atmosphere. The exploration of space, both indoor and outdoor is also an exploration of the recesses of the psyche, integrating thoughts and daydreams to the physical.

I am influenced by patterns, William Morris in particular and the idea of draftsmanship because it evokes feelings of domesticity and nature. I use patterns to reconstruct the aesthetic of the paintings and to create a tension in the work between nature and the built environment. I am interested in the theories around utopias and dystopias and their connection to modernist architecture and spaces. My work explores memories of places I have lived in, visited and imagined while exploring my own identity as autonomous artist."