Women at a table 1 Painting

London based artist looking to push the boundaries of what can be achieved through painting. One of my main preoccupations is attempting to make the idea and technique inseparable. For me, painting in this sense tends towards a complete interlocking of image and paint, so that the image becomes the paint and vice versa, enhancing the visual excitement. The brushstrokes create the form and not merely fill it in, every movement of the brush altering the shape and implications of the image. That is why, i believe, painting is a continuous struggle. It is mysterious because the very substance of the paint, when used in this way can make a direct assault upon the viewer and bring the image back in a far more poignant way. In painting, the image must be twisted, distorted, deformed, radically and at times less so to bring the fact of it more directly to the fore. As Van Gogh said; “I want my paintings to be inaccurate and anomalous in such a way that they become lies if you like, but lies that are more truthful than the literal truth”. That I believe is the difficulty of painting today. In my paintings, I attempt to recreate a particular sensation with renewed vigor in the desire to live through it again with a different kind of intensity. There is also at the same time a deep need to further each image for myself and give the fact of it a new twist through distortion and at times, combinations of materials . I tend to work in series, with specific images which move me and they act as a grounding which allow, through the manipulation of paint, to push sensations of the image into a heightened reality. It is only in trying to push reality that one can hope to break the mould and perhaps do something new.