New Work

A Peek at what I’ve been working on all year.

It started with an obsession with circles ⭕️ and blossomed into a deep look at shape and colour. 

Each simple painting is created using a process I call paint collage. They are 100% acrylic paint but the process I use to make them is collage. Each painting is therefore unique, plus the risky process of collaging a thin acrylic film of paint onto a wood panel means there are ‘mistakes’. These are a large part of why I love creating this way! 

I’ve always loved seeing “the hand of the artist” in my work and other’s. By this I mean brushstrokes, wonky lines, corrections and all the other unique marks that artists make. But when it comes to circles... well they just look wonky and wrong if I let those show. But with my new process I can have both a perfect circle AND show marks etc, those ‘mistakes’ I love! 

I can show other conundrums too. Paintings can look both new and old simultaneously, slick and rough, bright and subtle, even round and square(?)

But most of all I simply love colour and shape and how I can manipulate each to add more to the other. 

Then I discovered that if I mixed and matched the wood panel paintings (another kind of collage?) I could create even more wonderful shape/colour relationships. This is the tip of the iceberg of what’s going on in both my brain and my studio! Stay tuned!