"Sea urchin" Painting

My paintings are an investigation of visual vocabularies; a playful exploration of form, colour combinations, and patterns that represent a private, abstract language. I do not attempt to decode the symbols, only to find what resonates within me. I love translating digital motifs physically, meticulously reproducing forms by hand, embracing anomalies as imperfect “perfection.”

Rhythm and repetition work meditatively for me, and I am no longer thinking, only looking and feeling. From slow and deliberate to impulsive and fast, I want to capture the vibrancy of motion. The large canvas allows me to express freedom and exuberance, yet my marks and gestures attempt to attain a balance between discipline and play, spontaneity and control.

Figurative elements invade my world for a while and then disappear again, while old-school technical drawings, vintage flora and fauna studies, maps and bitmapped graphical elements might also contribute to a visual conversation. The resulting work is a collision between the geometric and organic, digital and analogue, structure and chaos.

My palette is bold and opaque, primary and pastel, black and white. I work on paper or linen with East Indian and colour ink, acrylic and oil paint, markers and coarse brushes. I start out simple then expand my range as the work develops.

The canvas mirrors and exaggerates my wonder and joy in the power of paint and invites viewers to share in a visceral experience of it. But the paintings must also remain autonomous. They have their own life and personality.