Abstract Oil Painting Series 7.5 Painting

My current work has a hint of the tangible human form mixed with that of abstraction. My history has been one of a want to technically develop my portrayal of the human figure but in a very experimental way. Over the last few years I became interested in a purely reactionary process of mark making which has then developed into sculpture through my knowledge and experience of a vast array of manipulating and crafting of materials. It is evident that these works are an emotional representation of my love of the human form and its movement through, martial arts, sports, dance as well as the activities of everyday life. I am continuously working with athletes and dancers, understanding how their bodies work, but also their drive, their feelings and emotions, through a whole approach small changes can result in great improvements. Throughout I have become aware of how I demonstrate contrast, and searching for that yin and yang balance, through tension, harmony, movement and calm within a form, but also how materials and colour working side by side themselves can provocatively stimulate those same feelings. I have found myself unconventionally finding ways to create work that identifies those qualities for the viewer to discover, potentially forging structure from apparent chaos. Its made me consider how individually and collectively we are continually in tension with all that’s around, sometimes seemingly uncontrollable forces, and yet ultimately wanting harmony, trying to find the balance in life, whether morally, politically, physically or holistically, but with the need for the extreme, to push and excel, and to be recognised. It is of course profoundly different for all. I have always needed my work to work on different levels, an instant attraction, beauty, tangible, but an unwrapping by the viewer and allowance to communicate, greater, deeper questions to be asked, thoughts, and inspiration to be felt and considered, enriching.