Deep Among the Grasses: Abstract Paintings of Memory, Landscape and Immersion
Connection to the Landscape
Deep Among the Grasses is a series of abstract oil paintings that explores the memory of being completely immersed in the landscape — those moments when the boundary between ourselves and the natural world begins to blur. It draws on childhood memories of long grasses, overgrown gardens and spaces that felt larger than life.
Secret Garden, 2025. Oil on canvas, 120 × 100cm. Private collection.
Painting the Feeling of a Place
These paintings are not representations of specific landscapes, but an attempt to capture a sensation: the movement of air through grasses, shifting light, and the experience of being surrounded by the land. Through colour, gesture and repeated brush marks, I create imagined spaces that hold atmosphere, emotion and memory.
Restoration, 2025. Oil on canvas, 120cm x 100cm.
A Process-Led Approach to Abstract Oil Painting
My approach is intuitive and process-led. I do not begin with a fixed image; instead, the work develops through a conversation with the materials. Oil paint is layered, wiped away and reworked. The history of the painting remains visible — brush marks jostle against one another, colours react to their neighbours, and some areas remain unresolved, preserving a sense of openness and discovery.
Deep Among the Grasses, 2025. Oil on canvas, 140cm x 140cm. Private collection.
Patience in Looking: The Surface and the Viewer
These paintings ask for a slower way of looking. As the eye travels across the surface, marks begin to separate, colours shift and hidden rhythms emerge. The paintings hold the time of their making and invite the viewer into a quiet exchange — one of patience, attention and discovery.
In Air, 2025. Oil on canvas, 80cm x 70cm.
