To find an entire universe through a lens is a thing of both beauty and terror. By developing methodologies in the studio where visual information is filtered through memory, the work is removed from the theoretical lineage of the sublime, taking on an element of play.
 

Using photographs of natural and organic structures as a starting point, a mixture of the random and controlled reflects the chaos and order of the natural world and leads to an image that has grown organically on the canvas. By using the pictorial surface as a Petri dish in this way, one series of work sparks the next, thus mimicking the evolutionary process in the studio.
 

Each series of work makes up part of an archive. This archive reflects the poetic cycle of life and death, the beauty of decay, and the continual emergence and disappearance of form. The work forms a record of a time and place that only exists through memory and imagination.
 

Education:
2005-2008, B.A. Honours Degree in Fine Art: Painting, City & Guilds of London Art School
 

Exhibitions:
2006, City and Guilds of London Art School, Group exhibition, Diorama Arts, Great Portland Street
2007, City and Guilds of London Art School, Group exhibition, art space galleries, Mayfair
 

Awards:
2007, The Skinners’ Company Philip Connard Travel Award