Australasia Painting

Creation seems to be a product of the mind that involves combining things (in my case images) through association; this can happen in any one of our conscious states. Drawing can be seen as another form of perception; through it we can display our different interpretations of reality based on our personal consciousnesses and feelings. Art provides us with lots of strange and wonderfully different depictions of space, each culture with their own unique visual stylisation. It seems to me art has become abstract expressions of a world behind our consciousness, a reality of the world hidden by our veils of stress, habit and self-image. My practice resides around exploring these different perceptions; I do this through the creation of immersive landscapes or ‘spaces’. Imagining myself as a metaphorical character that journeys through these unknown exotic places of the mind. My fascination has evolved around developing dynamic landscapes. Environments that are full of energy and life, each form battling for its place amongst the many complex narratives that jump in and out of existence. The drawings will focus will focus on the breakdown of landscape, addressing the complexities in breaching the fine line between figuration, abstraction and decoration.