Free Flow - No Control Collage

Born in Kingston, Jamaica and raised in Maryland - I am a mixed media artist, creating what I feel is intriguing, pleasing to the eye, and therapeutic to the soul. With bold colors and subtle touches of calm tones, I find that my work visually stimulates your gaze and slows down your pace towards peace. My natural tendency as I produce work is to bring a new life to scraps and compliment them with fresh strokes of paint. I often repurpose materials like paper, tape and strings of yarn that I have accumulated over the past 6 years of creating art. As a minimal abstract artist, I like to practice the idea of up-cycling by finding different ways to incorporate reused paper, patterns, shapes or flowers, and clash them with rather chaotic elements. I find it rather stimulating to play along the lines of introducing simplicity to ruckus, and expressing through abstract.My relationship with nature plays a prominent role in my work. When the right time introduces itself, I will always cherish flowers past their prime – “dead” stage, and repurpose its life as a focus or portion of a mixed media collage. Their delicate, yet sturdy and stable nature compliments the piece as I try to portray appreciation for it’s remained and reclaimed strength and beauty that I see. Alongside that clear resemblance and relation to nature, I like to think that my choice of colors also capture a lot of influence from nature. From the neutrals in bark to branches, to the vibrancy seen all around in petals, in the sky, in every single thing surrounding us daily. I transfer that visual stimulation into my work as a welcoming, inspiring and eye-catching iridescence throughout each piece. From the warmer hues to the coldest hues, I think that my influence very much so is transparent with nature. My personal creative growth is in no way a linear journey. It is very much abstract to me. A vibrant energy-driven ride that is bold, and it is proud. It is impulsive yet careful, it is sharp, protective and gentle; fluctuating with the passions and periods in time. During my personal journey, I hope to continue my pleasure in executing and developing my style in abstract minimalism through mixed media collage. I hope to keep the momentum alive by remaining patient with myself, confident and interested in pushing my limits.