Plastic Dancer Painting

The focus of my work explores my on-going interest in our physical surroundings, and how the objects they contain, stimulate our perceptual responses. Recently, my attention has been drawn, unavoidably, towards the pollution of our planet, with careless waste and litter. I am currently exploring this theme of pollution through painting and new media. The title of the series this painting belongs to is “Flotsam”. Using waste materials as my central subject, this project comprises a series of paintings that reflect the catastrophic effects of our carelessness towards the planet. The imagery in each painting is based on the incongruous still-life compositions that I construct within natural landscape settings. The aim is to create a body of work that is paradoxically visually attractive, but also contextually disturbing. By presenting waste materials as still-life subjects, the work embodies a satirical glorification of litter. My hope is that the arresting nature of these paintings - and their somewhat mocking, defiant tone - will embody a jibe against thoughtless waste that will stay with the viewer.