Meet Me Half Way Painting

My richly textured, abstract paintings evolve from a process of improvisation and experimentation. The work is driven by a very tactile process of constructing and deconstructing using a variety of methods and materials from paper, painting, assemblage and sewing. I’m cutting bits up, reworking, reconfiguring and repairing. However, in these larger 80 x 80 cm (32 x 32 inches) paintings a more methodical process takes over. I use my paper collages to inform my compositions and the elements although they look like they are collaged are all in fact painted and drawn directly onto the canvas. In this painting displaced forms, fragments and patterns are pieced together and built on one another to create new connections and meanings. I think of them as a disorderly attempt to make sense of things. Acrylic and mixed media on canvas.