Artist Statement
Statement
My paintings represent an interpretation of the relationship that exists between the spaces that surround us and our own inner world.
In my work I explore the layers that combine to form our experience of the world in which we live. My paintings depict the two worlds that we, as human beings, navigate simultaneously - the physical world we move through, and the perceptual architecture of the mind. I investigate the dialogue between these two worlds, a dialogue that is common to everyone, but at the same time unique and personal to each of us.
I think of these two worlds as an inner and outer landscape. What interests me is exploring the convergence between these two landscapes - a place where the realm of the mind, the spirit and the senses connects with the physical world we live in. In my paintings I try to reconcile components from both the observed, physical world with that of the sublime, inner world and I try to create my own language for this experience.
There is a marked stillness and absence of life in the spaces I depict, as it is in such places of quiet and solitude that we can become aware of the ongoing dialogue between our minds and the physical spaces that surround us. To me an ordinary everyday space, like a staircase for instance, can evoke a memory or a feeling thereby contributing to the many layers that shape and colour our experience of the physical world.
It is my hope that the viewer will enter and experience this dual landscape of mind and matter and that collectively these paintings will hold the viewer in a space that enables them to themselves engage with this timeless dialogue.
My paintings represent an interpretation of the relationship that exists between the spaces that surround us and our own inner world.
In my work I explore the layers that combine to form our experience of the world in which we live. My paintings depict the two worlds that we, as human beings, navigate simultaneously - the physical world we move through, and the perceptual architecture of the mind. I investigate the dialogue between these two worlds, a dialogue that is common to everyone, but at the same time unique and personal to each of us.
I think of these two worlds as an inner and outer landscape. What interests me is exploring the convergence between these two landscapes - a place where the realm of the mind, the spirit and the senses connects with the physical world we live in. In my paintings I try to reconcile components from both the observed, physical world with that of the sublime, inner world and I try to create my own language for this experience.
There is a marked stillness and absence of life in the spaces I depict, as it is in such places of quiet and solitude that we can become aware of the ongoing dialogue between our minds and the physical spaces that surround us. To me an ordinary everyday space, like a staircase for instance, can evoke a memory or a feeling thereby contributing to the many layers that shape and colour our experience of the physical world.
It is my hope that the viewer will enter and experience this dual landscape of mind and matter and that collectively these paintings will hold the viewer in a space that enables them to themselves engage with this timeless dialogue.