Artist’s Statement
I am primarily interested by shape and colour. My work focuses on rural landscape as I am fascinated by its pattern, light, weather and seasonality. It’s the perfect raw material for me: local, familiar and in a constant state of change.
Printmaking and enamelling are demanding processes and I love the tension between what I want to say and how I can say it within the boundaries of process. That said, I am not a meticulous planner, my initial drawings are minimal to say the least and I prefer colours to develop as I work. It’s more a question of having a feel for what I want to say than knowing in advance how I’m about to say it. I’m at my happiest when I’m exploring and I try never to get too comfortable either with my images or my technical skills.
I’m not interested in depicting a particular place, more I want to evoke a feel for a type of day or season. Mostly I am looking for ways of saying space and distance, though I’m still working on language for the simpler things too. I want to jog memories in my viewer of places they’ve been, walks they’ve taken or weather they’ve experienced. When I see recognition dawn on the face of my viewer, I know I’m getting it right.