A continuous strand of interest in my work has been the
notion of time and memory.
I use paint, photography,
drawing and paper to express my ideas based around
these themes.
My painting style owes as much to photographers and
film-makers as it does to artists
such as Boltanski,
Neudecker and Vermeer. The paint is swept across the
canvas,
like
an image racing past a window, paused for
a split second, snapped by a camera,
caught
in the
memory.
Imagery is often lifted from mass media as well
as a personal
collection of photographs – close cropped,
enlarged, abstracted, fragmented and edited:
the resulting
effect
demanding attention to detail.
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My current work has evolved from a fascination in
collecting
and notions of preservation
and beauty.
I am currently
creating work made out of paper. As with
my painting,
the
butterflies capture a fleeting moment,
the desire for
a non-lasting, ever-changing beauty.
Cut from lifestyle
magazines theyhighlight the fragile
nature of beauty
and the aspirationsthat are projected
onto us. A model,
a stance, a dress, a moment, captured
on film and
printed
in the thousands, disposable but
forever preserved to be
filed away.
Since graduating in 2000 from Fine Art Painting at Brighton
University, I have
participated
in many group exhibitions
and have completed multiple works for private
and
corporate collections.
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