Mixed Media
As an artist I choose to work in an abstract visual dialogue. Abstraction, like fiction, allows for greater artistic freedom in the portrayal of everyday life, in starkly truthful ways. The artworks are allegorical expressions depicting subjective emotions regarding human survival: universal and particular; substance and accident; essence and existence. Reflections on the dichotomies that exist in the living world.
Stylistically, my work fluctuates between genres: paintings on canvas and paper; mixed media, collage pieces on a range of host surfaces and materials; assemblage; photography (analog and digital); artist books. Conceptual-themes dictate as to materials to be applied and incorporated. The paintings tend to begin with free-flowing gestural drawings using either graphite- marker- and/or acrylic paints—or all in combination. The surfaces vary between encrusted thick layers of oil paint, along with, expressive bold figuration—or paintings that are subtle, quiet, minimalist meditations.
The mixed media/collage and assemblages are created on a variety of surfaces, including: canvas, archival artist papers, steel, or wood. The use of color on the mixed media works will vary accordingly, between Japanese sumi’e inks, watercolor or gouache, acrylics and oil paint. The mixed media/collage works incorporate wide range of materials: parts of old book, found rusted metal, glass, wood, and (random) salvaged objects.