My work is a snippet of my personal reality which challenges the preconception of what is considered ‘worthy’ of painting. It turns our attention to the mundane objects that surround us daily, appreciating them for a different type of beauty that we may sometimes overlook, giving them life beyond the ordinary.
My work alters from painting specifically orchestrated still life, to capturing something ‘in the moment’, with no prior arrangement. I look at the cropping of images, whether it be the fragmentation of a vase until it becomes abstract, or simply a snippet of a table-top with the remnants of a meal, both of which leave a degree of mystery as to what the unseen may hold. My style can be smooth or painterly, and sometimes a combination of the two, looking at how a painting can be flat yet still hold an element of depth to it, allowing the work to contradict itself.
I have a fondness for the shadows that objects cast and how they can become the language of the painting. The way the light hits these objects and the position they are placed is unique to the painting itself. It captures a moment in time; an instant that combines several factors that I will never be able to replicate.