Friday Afternoon Painting

My paintings are about movement, rhythm and intensity of feeling and, though there is a suggested narrative, the viewer is invited to draw their own conclusions. Figures look off into the distance or, with their backs turned, face the unknown future. Drawing on the traditions and tropes of Western art history, my practice is influenced and informed by poetic and cinematic devices, references and sensibilities - the split-screen motif being one example. Originating in photo references, observational drawings and collages, my paintings are the result of a mediated process and develop from a playfully inquiring practice in which I manipulate the source imagery, interrogating it for new meaning. Prizing the materiality and physicality of paint as much as the subject matter, how I paint becomes as important as what I paint.