For a long time I have wanted to persue something that I could not find in life, the exploration of a new sensation. But the question was how to do it? What and who to follow.
I realized through the writing of my thesis, which investigated the works of Werner Hertzog and Casper David Friedrich, that my interests lay in a broad range of creative influences. From the exciting fear of the Sublime, the wonderful difficulties of Romanticism, the beautiful reverence of gold leafed icons as well as the materiality of Art Povera, I developed my work.
This eclectic collection of influences left me with only one way forward, to explore the subject of my interests through the use of mixed language.
Giving myself the restraint of 8' x 4' plywood boars as a constant, I have worked paint, tin foil (as paupers gold), charcoal and acrylic paint to create a range of works which enter into dialogue with each other as a body of work, while revealing themselves as individuals to myself and others.
Through the manipulation of colour, shape, line, tone and texture I have been able to express elements of the atmospheric sublime, the decorative spirituality of the icon and the sheer expressionism of paint as statements of differing creative activities and communications.