Fluorescent signs warning us to be cautious, high visability clothing, road signs and markings telling you to stay in lane and which way to go work their way into my practice. I’m drawn to the high intensity of these colours, those we encounter every day that are just outside our peripheral vision in order to alert and catch our attention.
Always in dialogue with the past my work is an investigation into the act of painting, by applying a painterly approach to colour and line with materials such as electrical tape, nails and high visibility fabric my work sits on the edge of what constitutes as a painted image. I’m particularly interested in the constructional act in which these materials are used and the phenomena of their contemporary colours.
Starting with a process of playful experimentation it is a rigorous practice of decisions made on a surface and in a space until I see something start to work.