Painting for me is to find a sense of home. My best work travels beyond myself as each layer of colour and mark leads to another. I want to capture an atmosphere, a sense of place. In this process I find grounding, joy, light and life.
The direct experience of the Australian landscape is continuously imagined and reimagined in my studio practice. Through painting, I explore how colour and the vibrations of light evoke our connection to the land—this sacred, spiritual space to which we all belong.
I am primarily concerned with the ways in which landscape painting can be seen as a metaphor to express the myriad of human emotion; our unique sense of longing, loss, fear, hope and desire for connection.
I enjoy beginning my painting process en plein-air through observation and perception, then working intuitively through layering and mark making back at the studio; uncovering the journey each painting has within it. I’m ultimately seeking a truth, a raw honesty and a perceived atmosphere in the work.
My concern for a more sustainable use of materials has led me to develop a practice using oil paint that is solvent-free.
