Artist Statement

“Being a society that craves and exists with such intensity and extremity in materialism and pace it is all too easy to skim along the surface without being able to dive and submerge into fleeting moments. Transposing this with the concept of spirituality in the light of theology and theosophy were in an act of rebellion to” the nightmare of materialism” and modern life, abstract expressionist artists created works surrounding the spiritual within it art, taking focus in nature as it was alluded by them to being the form that insights divine connection. Leading from this I aim to create works that embody this ethereality but not just nature, in every form of life occurrences. Taking inspiration from the everyday to the seemingly sublime, using my own unique rendering, a combination of classical and modern processes and approaches and lucid colour palettes, to construct paintings with brooding intensity,  laced with enigmatic narratives. Reality does not need to be mediated through a rose tinted lens to seem desirable nor is experienced through mediated fabrications. Reality holds beauty and depth and complexity within every fleeting moment and in my pursuit of painting I aim to uncover the spiritual in art that is to me, reality. Furthermore, my art aids me in my own journey of self discovery and my relationship with myself as a spiritual being having a human experience.”