Statement
My goal is to create a relationship between my work and the viewer, specifically through painting where I aim to create a pictorial space that evokes a response. While I take strong influences from rule breakers such as Kazimir Malevich and abstract expressionists such as Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, my work also appropriates from modern day painters such as Callum Innes and Mary Ramsden.
Recently, my work has been evolving and rapidly centering its focus strictly onto painting. Although there has been a reduction of engagement towards philosophical theory, there are still underlying influence of the sublime within my work whilst I explore the use of paint through a rhythmic gestural sense of mark making, colour, geometry and creation of space and depth with a continued pursuit towards abstraction. A reduction of form, elements and a minimalist approach is the dialect of painting I am currently finding myself using to articulate my work whilst I explore the possibilities of paint onto canvas through the use of a restricted palette to create colour field paintings.
With these tactics, the goal is to create work that engages the viewer at a personal level; I want the viewer to project themselves onto the painting and project their own readings onto the works, essentially creating a relationship with them. I am trying to comprehend how I can articulate artwork that is minimal in form yet able to create a complex experience, which I find to be a difficult task to tackle; yet I find this task a driving factor in my pursuit of painting. Overall, my work is evolving towards a reduction of form, an exploration of the materiality of paint; it’s application and the relationship this creates with the viewer.