In another place Painting

My work is all about connection between people, the communities they live in, and their impact and relationship to the landscape in what they reside. The people I portray have a sense of history, perhaps a melancholic way of reminding us of what has long since passed, what we have lost in many ways. Emotion and memory etched on their faces. This is where we came from. Generations of families living through uncertain times, and bound together by community, loss and hope. Layers of muted colours and textured paint are built up in the same way that memories are accumulated over our lifetime and from the generations before. A history, half remembered, stories told and adapted over time. I often feel that rather than painting or drawing on a surface, I am excavating an image, a person or a place, revealing something that has been there for a long, long time. My process is one of applying layers and scraping or erasing away, leaving remnants that are built up and removed over and over until the final image comes together.