2 for 1 Collage

Originally from Beverley, a small town in East Yorkshire. I am currently in my 3rd year of university studying Fine Art Painting at Wimbledon College of Art. My work focuses on the idea of a digital practise, an idyllic world that you enter with the click of a computer mouse. We become engrossed with this virtual reality, and can travel around the world in a screen in 30 seconds. My paintings are about looking at the imperfections of this fabricated, perfect virtual reality, and the imperfections of making something physical. As if you are looking at a picturesque screensaver of a beach. I use digitally created compositions to bring material paintings to life. These compositions are a combination of photographs, still life, and abstract work. I like to think about the relationship between 'layers', the contrast of the tangible and intangible, gestural and mechanical, all in relation to the digital and material world. My work is the result of reducing down elements, but also highlighting the world inside the computer screen. As if one is looking directly through a virtual window in to another world.