I would consider myself a Surrealist painter in technique and approach.
My work is less concerned with an explicit object being depicted and more focused on capturing the sensation of my own thought, using the process of painting as a medium to draw it out. Each mark made is a response to the last and a prompt for the next; my main concern is the relational structure and sensation of the painting itself.
I try for a sort of “stable instability” in my pieces, where compositional harmony acts as a joint forbroken and disjointed approaches to material application. I like to work with mixed media due to the fact that the materials tend to reject each other: chalk mixing into water, ink blurring between the two.
Abstraction in a lot of ways is a tool for me to find where the materials I use to express myself start and where I end – drawing a line between material and subjective reality.
Forcing consideration on the aspect of form is potentially the most important goal for me as an artist, as I feel art should encourage the viewer to think about how they’re drawing meaning from it in the first place.
