FLUX Nr.12 Painting

For me painting is performative :: explore - form - redact - scribe - obliterate - order - resolve. The materiality of paint texture, gesture, and colour - the abstract gestalt - a record of process, a layered palimpsest, manifested in the artefact. I work using an iterative process, beginning from the discoveries of previous work, but letting go of predetermined expectations. Taking an experimental approach to working with painting media, including the use of a plasterer’s trowel, squeegee, metal scribe and occasionally brush, to allow chance and visual discovery to inform the dynamic journey a painting takes. I am a Irish/British artist from London, and since leaving there in 1997, I have lived in Malmo Sweden, in Newcastle, and currently reside in Bristol where I have a family and teach alongside of my studio practice. Importantly for me it is the experience of these cities and of their hinter-landscapes that informs my work. Alongside of my establishing and leading a foundation art & design programme, I exhibit widely in the UK, and my work is held in collections in the U.K., Europe, the UAE, and in the U.S. In 2022/3 I took a sabbatical from teaching and using this time and intellectual space to fully engage with an immersive studio practice - and produced a dynamic new group of works. Following on from this I have now left full time teaching to focus upon his studio practice. I continue to teach online and in my studio, and am a verified online tutor through Spires and Superprof, providing mentoring for UCAS applicants & workshops in art and design. For further information: https://www.superprof.co.uk/art-classes-and-ucas-mentoring-from-supportive-and-friendly-foundation-lead-tutor-ual-btec-and-practising-artist-fine-art.html Earlier Liminal Landscape series: Combining a visual language of photography, paint, and found objects from these edgescapes, these images are constructed from location, fiction, and the observation of entropy.