Swish Painting

I draw inspiration from my experiences and memories of the natural world - where the land meets the sea, the wilderness of mountains, the intimacy of a garden. From these moments and memories I paint to create work that has a sense of time unfolding, where nothing is static but forever in a state of becoming and where a sense of permanence and impermanence is implied. I enjoy working on paper because of its mutable properties, its fragility, impermanence and ability to absorb watercolour and inks that become embedded into its structure rather than lie on its surface. I work directly and intuitively exploring and exploiting the intrinsic qualities of these media, their fluidity, transparency and opacity. Forms and shapes dance to find their own rhythm, sometimes dissolving into a space whilst others are interrupted by a line, mark or form. These processes are orchestrated until they become an image that evokes my emotional response to a particular experience of a time / event I work on several paintings simultaneously letting each painting evolve to find its own identity, somewhere between abstraction and figuration. I work in series often re-visiting themes.