I am a painter interested in technology, its impact on perception and the ever evolving nature of our understanding of the cosmos and our place with in it. I use a rudimentary way of extracting stills from film devised to elicit various digital distortions such as data drop-out, overexposure, colour alterations and pixelation. These stills serve as references for my small-scale representational paintings which are meticulously rendered. I then work in a generative manner to create larger abstract paintings based on the pigments, fragments, technological aesthetics and themes of my small-scale work. I am also drawn to properties of paint which arise on their own accord, pigments on painting rags, tools such as thread and other remnants of the painting process I often incorporate, reference or present as stand alone pieces. My recent work considers the parameters of that which is perceived as ‘real’. Researching phenomena which, to date, the laws of science cannot account for. For this body of work I’ve drawn on film footage of unidentifiable aerial events, unusual weather occurrences, Earth Sciences archives, and Anthropology documentaries among others. I neither believe nor disbelieve in extraordinary phenomena but remain in a state of playful imagination provoked by such accounts.
