Recent Work

I’m really interested in the idea of ‘found paintings’. Coming across painterly incidents within the non-art arena of functional painting. Within badly painted fences and botched half jobs I see shapes and compositions that are really interesting when viewed in a different context. It’s something about serendipitous mark making and the oxymoronic nature of paint that can provide a playful dialogue around the relationship between function and art. The monumental banal is a mainstay in contemporary art that links back to Duchamp and Dadaism, but I suppose its just about looking at the ordinary and seeing the extraordinary. The difference between looking and seeing. Some of my recent work is definitely influenced by these ‘found paintings’, but more in the quality of mark making than the composition.