Fly Away Painting

Exhibitions 2011 "Royal Society of Water Colours" Mall Galleries 2011 "Canary Wharf Window Gallery" Canary Wharf 2010 "BHVU Winter Open" BHVU Gallery, London 2010 "Views from the Edge" View Tube, Olympic Park 2010 "Open Studio In Relief" London Print Studio 2010 "Showcase London" (7 July) Brick Lane 2010 "Free Range" Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane 2010 "Showcase London" (16 June) Brick Lane 2010 "Degree Showcase" UEL, Docklands 2010 "Leaving Traces" AVA Gallery, UEL, Docklands 2010 "Showcase London" (17 March) Brick Lane 2010 "Showcase London" (3 March) Brick Lane 2010 "Open Studio" London Print Studio 2009 "Graphic Arts 2" UEL, Docklands 2009 "Picture Prints Words" Rag Factory, Brick Lane 2009 "Dialogue II" Manhattanville College, New York 2009 "Print Show" AVA Gallery, UEL, Docklands 2008 "Graphic Arts 1" AVA Gallery, UEL, Docklands Statement I am often drawn to images or places which I have a certain sympathy for, their lost or undiscovered. A place out of use or in disrepair, a lost or discarded photograph, an image considered faulty, over exposed or with a decentred composition. I find there is something endearing or storytelling about them, which makes them intriguing and often quite striking, tragic, but beautiful. I work with these images, by painting over a photographic print. I try to stir up an attraction in them, a focus or certain mystery about them to regenerate an interest in these forgotten images or places. I have a compulsion to play with the images sense of time and place. Editing the image plays an important part in this as it prevents the full analysis of the photograph and is an exploration process that plays with revealing and suppressing the image. Hiding and exposing information acts as an analogy for how the photograph reveals the appearance of the past whilst limiting the full experience of it. What is held back is interesting for me, as this represents the gap between the image and lived experience.