My work is an abstracted response to the colour, texture, forms and flora of the landscape around me. I live and work in Dja Dja Wurrung Country, the Central Victorian Goldfields, which are an enduring source of inspiration.
The enamel borders around my works are deliberate – they offer a window of aesthetic contemplation and an experience of perception.
Texture plays an important role in my paintings. Texture works on a visceral level – we feel it in our bodies, even if it’s being viewed and not touched. The work is optically playful; the painting surface is matt and comprises richly compressed layers which engage teasingly with depth perception.
I often paint a border which forms an integrated part of the entire substrate (i.e. it’s not ‘separate’) creating a framed effect without the need for additional framing (although you are free to do so). The purpose of the border is to offer a window of aesthetic contemplation and a particular experience of perception.
My intentions are unsophisticated. When you look at the paintings, I want you to feel good. I want you to feel your imagination working. I want the viewer to do some of the work, but I want that job to be pleasurable. I want you to feel some of the pleasure that I feel in the making of it – in the viewing of it.
