Sea of gifted delusions
75x95
oil on canvas
2024

Tracing the tides
oil on canvas
75x55cm
2024

Duck
120x90cm
oil and Indian ink on canvas
2023

washing machine
120x90cm
oil and Indian ink on canvas

Wave waterfalling
150x100cm
oil and Indian ink on canvas
2023

How to catch time
120x90cm
oil and Indian ink on canvas
2023

2023-2024 the body and the sea

In this ongoing project I am responding to the energy, rhythm and movement of the ocean. A powerful metaphor for life and death, redemption and renewal, it is the temporality and physical pull of the tides that are my subject, and I try to capture these through drawings that record the movement of the water. These paintings begin from drawings and a gesture made onto the canvas using ink, I then perform a physical process of washing the surface of barely primed canvas with thinned oil paint and medium, scrubbing and staining the canvas to build optical layers of colour. I see these paintings as a static embodiment of sensation, energy and movement.

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