Paintings

I work in an open-ended process, layering and scraping back the surface of my paintings, letting chance work with intent, falling in and out of control. I’m searching for an abrasive quality yet still capable of the utmost delicacy, in hopes the paint takes on the role of flesh and becomes the sign of life. The impasto lends to the tangible and the dissolved paint channels the ghostlike. Through dissolving dimensional boundaries, I aim to lead the viewer into a dreamlike world where the familiar is made strange, and then familiar once again. This fragmentation of representation is set to challenge traditional notions of beauty and wholeness, these fluctuations are the most honest reflection of life. Each painting has been a number of others in their creation, traces from every stage remain in the final image, the abstract marks converge into warped figurations imbued with mystery.