Boats 1 Painting

Anything interesting that provides a new vehicle for exploring the possibilities with paint, can become a subject. I tend to work in series, developing ideas within the paintings as I go. I am concerned with the rhythm and heartbeat of a painting. I love contrasts and contradictions, which are sometimes amplified within my work - such as strength/fragility, melancholy/hope, pretty/edgy, light/dark. I enjoy not knowing quite where a painting is headed, leaving room for experimentation and letting the paint 'have its head' - for me, this is where creativity resides. I like to explore the balance between integrity of representation, and exploration of expressive mark making - maybe sliding up and down a spectrum between representation and abstraction.