My paintings are process-led — canvases that are complex and richly layered, brimming with colour and gesture. The surface is built up intuitively, paint added, removed and reworked to create a textured, tactile surface where control and intuition meet; resolution sits alongside imperfection. Oil paint creates a rich surface, a meditation on materiality in which dabs and dashes, drips and scrapes, play off one another. Layers of oil, worked on over several months give evidence to the passing of time, producing work that feels both considered and alive. 

My painting Flourish is a great example this approach with layers of gestural marks and colour emerging to create a loose form.