Painting can be uncertain, fractured, and personal.

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Painting can be a live negotiation with self-doubt and intuition, not always a display of certainty, but as a process-driven form of inquiry. I present the mess of the creative process, the parts that are often hidden, as perhaps they undermine the traditional idea that artists know exactly what they are doing. I accept moments of uncertainty and allow them to be as formative as clarity or control. I resonate with contemporary discourses around mental health, champion authenticity, and create passages through to the deconstruction of artistic ego.

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Painting can be coloured by the metaphysical frameworks of emotion and information that affect the painter at work, rendering each piece a snapshot of my inner world in the moment of creation. I draw titles from idiosyncratic snippets of news media, a ritual that saturates the paint with the maelstrom of media narratives. My paintings are not just pure creations; they are reactions; responses both to the physicality of the material and to intuitive interactions with the world.

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Painting can be a space for play, where a vulnerable and introspective approach to painting can resist the commodified, polished product expected by the art market. Rather, I think about painting relationally, where connections emerge through proximity, memory, or feeling, rather than through strict coherence. My work unfolds through variation and divergence, resisting formalist readings or rigid interpretation.

Through a sustained exploration of the materiality of paint, its applications, limitations, and inherent reactive potential, every painting  can embrace the possibility of something happening.

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The best of painting is peculiar and unknowable.