I’m an abstract painter exploring the magnificence of colour as a visceral experience. I am influenced by the materiality of oil paint, intuitive mark-making, and the fundamental qualities of colour, form, and composition. Painting always engulfs me into something tactile, immediate and real. I’m directly influenced by Kandinski’s The Spiritual in Art and his colour correlation theories, particularly relating to sound and colour. I’m obsessed with colour and it’s evocative impact on our senses.

As I paint, many gestural marks, shapes, and colour contrasts become the final composition. I love to create a sense of rhythmic energy in my brushstrokes. This is a way of interpreting sound vibration and colour. Each additional layer of paint creates a new beginning in a dance between what to eliminate and what to keep. Working in layers is empowering as it forces a painter to act in the moment and not be afraid of elimination. Inevitably something more interesting happens as a result.

The way I start a painting is to capture one dominant hue while introducing other colours intuitively. My process is adding paint and erasing paint at the same time. The shapes are intuitive window-like forms that attempt to capture ephemeral moments of light. My painterly approach is often accidental, elusive and suggestive of something subjective. Most of all, I want people to feel mesmerised by the colour in my work and experience the spontaneity of spirit and imagination that I felt making the piece. The musicality of colour is always present in my work, as the painting titles are often referring to notes, tonal keys, tempo, music theory and movements.