I make paintings on various materials by constructing and cropping them whilst painting them simultaneously. There are several different processes in my work such as layering, collage, wiping, and washes as well as areas of flat colour. In some, I embed, wedge in, and snap the materials I use, which are sometimes painted on already, or left bare. These techniques feed into ideas I try to tackle such as our perceptions of space, time, planes, edges, and experiences of reality. I have been greatly influenced by painters like Amy Sillman, Agnes Martin, and Markus Lupertz, but also thinkers and writers in unrelated fields like the neuroscientist Donald Hoffman, and his recent book 'The Case Against Reality'.
Although the paintings are dealing with fundamentally abstract issues, there is an unconscious figurative ambiguity that inevitably comes through. This may allude to landscapes or organic forms, which have their own relationships with the materials used. My work aims to explore not just the fundamentals of painting, but the fundamentals of the relationship humans have with the world around us. I want the work to delve into the relative nature of our existence through multiple abstract languages running parallel to each other, that question the very limited abilities we have as conscious agents.
