Blank Screen Painting

My paintings, mixed media, drawing, printmaking and digital art are about aspects of memory, transition and origin. I depict an imagined process of passage from an idea/origin through to its situation in the present. I imagine the creative activity and thought process of specific people- artists, poets, musicians. In my landscape paintings I imagine the forces of nature and the geological strata as they form over time which results in particular geo-morphologies. I look for interiority beside surface features of specific people and terrain. Figurative organic elements in the composition meet and meld with flat, inorganic abstracted objects and the background. The artist's process from inspiration to creation is mirrored in some aspects of the earth's history. This form of disguised symbolism adds another dimension in which to explore aspects of human behaviour.
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