I began to play with automatic methods, used by Surrealist artists, like fumage and decalcomania. Inviting in an element of the unknown, an additional dichotomy. I particularly enjoy using the inkblot for its symmetry and multivalent meanings: mirroring, natural form, energy, pattern, psyche and interpretation.
Duality and multiplicity are themes that have become more pronounced for me over time. I enjoy the process of pulling things apart and putting them back together to see how paradoxical aspects live side by side and make up the greater whole of an intricately woven system. The micro/macro, inside/outside, life/death all revealing something of natural law.
My work continues to be an investigation into the realms of the feminine, delving in to the psyche in all its varied and contrasting manifestations; sensual, powerful, vulnerable, devastating and glorious. Alongside this development I’ve become interested in environments and what effect and relationship we have to them and vice versa. The mirroring and projecting of internal and external spaces and landscapes, the paradox of interconnectedness and separateness.
As with my previous ‘shadow’ work in Mexico and Peru, I took to the literal translation of ‘projection. Playing with projecting lights and shapes onto bodies and bodies on to various surfaces. This transformed the relationship between space and body. Overlapping and layering there begins to be a symbiosis, which I am still discovering thorough installation, image and paint.
Siren (ode to McQueen)2025, acrylic and oil pastels on canvas. 26" x 26"
Little bird (ode to McQueen) 2024, Acrylic & Oil pastels on canvas, 26” x 26”
We are 2023, Acrylic & Oil pastels on canvas, 30”x 38”
Queen of the Harpies (ode to McQueen) 2023, Acrylic & Oil pastels on canvas, 30”x 42”