My work has evolved over the last year from landscape based printing to abstract textural works using natural materials and multi media influences. I have found great inspiration from the outside world and the things I can use from out there, for example bricks, sand, tea and coffee to name just a few. Technique has also been a major part of my art, with dripping, scratching and spraying water all stages in creating my most recent and exciting work.
Subject – abstraction, colour and the relationship between me as the artist and the medium I am using.
I have always focused on the act of painting and how there is a strong relationship from when I apply the paint to the canvas or paper to the moment in which the paint dries and the moment is captured forever. I have felt that there is an emotional link between me and the paint. I came to a realisation a while a go that my art is about the medium escaping, and the drippings I so often use show the urgency to get away and/or run from me (so to speak). This I like to link to my techniques and this makes my art strongly about process, technique and capturing the purest moments of paints journey.
Technique – the main focus alongside process for me in the varying techniques I have explored this year.
Dripping, I like to see as my signature trait, is a constant that runs through all my art (no pun intended). The remains are the trails of paint, sand mixture and water in most cases that show traces of a journey. I have always enjoyed making and viewing minimal simplistic art that focuses on colour and texture but this term I have brought everything I can do together, to create stronger and deeper art.
This combination of paint, sand, tea, brick and other natural materials alongside my new rustic and more mature palette, has made me a better artist, and from combining the relationship I have with the paint and the emotional links I have to my art and I have never been more confident or happy with this work.
