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My work is based around life’s refusal to be simply defined or simply lived, hoping to emotionally transmit a mood and a sense of a vivid world that remains unexplained and open to interpretation. I am exploring ideas of Absurdism and building on my previous themes of chaos and conflicting emotional states.

The aim is a multi layered and textural result, with half seen elements and hints of movement, an undercurrent of darkness. I am pursuing a sense of complexity and ambiguity within the boundaries of the painting; pockets of resistance that serve to obfuscate and remain unresolved.

Works on paper.

Works on paper.

Paintings created between March 2019 and September 2020.

Works on paper.

Works on paper.

The Rebel Visions project deals with mood and emotional atmosphere. Emerging from a kind of controlled chaos, producing something elusive, amorphous and impatient, the works are almost topographical; weird and expressive inner landscapes. This was my first painting project and a unique and specific development of a process which once fully explored I moved away from. It produced a strong body of images and facilitated my move into more large scale and traditional painting processes.