artistic statement
Like all artists I am concerned with light. I draw inspiration from nature and the New Zealand landscape as well as using my own personal pictorial language.
I enjoy energy, movement and color. My paintings are a rhythmic combination of feeling and thought combined with formal considerations. I tend to paint intuitively, and work on several paintings at any given time. I use expressive brushwork and layering which allows for chance discoveries. I often re-work areas creating a layered history of the process thus adding to the autobiographical nature of the painting. For me a successful painting is flat and spatial at
I enjoy energy, movement and color. My paintings are a rhythmic combination of feeling and thought combined with formal considerations. I tend to paint intuitively, and work on several paintings at any given time. I use expressive brushwork and layering which allows for chance discoveries. I often re-work areas creating a layered history of the process thus adding to the autobiographical nature of the painting. For me a successful painting is flat and spatial at
the same time with a balance of structure and expressiveness, and with a spontaneous, complex and sensual surface, creating layers that one may "enter".
I believe that painting non-objectively allows the intuitive nature of the painter a voice. It also affords the widest range of interpretation including contradiction. I feel as though I have internalized the energetic and quickly changing elements of sky and water and often use a linear "horizon" as metaphor for remembered and future experience. I can´t think of anything I´d rather be doing.
I believe that painting non-objectively allows the intuitive nature of the painter a voice. It also affords the widest range of interpretation including contradiction. I feel as though I have internalized the energetic and quickly changing elements of sky and water and often use a linear "horizon" as metaphor for remembered and future experience. I can´t think of anything I´d rather be doing.
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