Backyard

What’s in your backyard? These works are made in multiple techniques – by drawing, slathering, scraping, sanding, adding and reducing.

I’m working in an anti-AI way, so that ‘backyard’ can mean anything or everything. Like, back of your mind? Where stuff is stored in the winter, and comes alive later on?

Always thinking about climate change and the giant contradiction involved when depicting optimism.

Largely abstract and heavily scraped, this collection is particularly “anti-AI” due to the extensive layering and textured surfaces. AI is pretty good at realistic imagery, but not great at abstraction, especially when an abstract painting’s rendition is physically dramatic.