Description

My portrait based work explores painter to sitter relationships. Choosing either to paint people without their knowing or people I have found on the internet that are strangers to me, my work explores the dichotomy of the public and the private by creating some strangely intimate yet distant relationships

Seeking new subjects to explore paint as a medium for my degree show I made paintings from collages constructed from found imagery. In painting these strange and sometimes unsettling scenarios with an increasingly experimental approach to the manipulation of colour, space and composition, I strive to highlight the wondrous ability paint has to describe, suggest and invent whilst establishing an ambiguous narrative that I hope will evoke curiosity in the viewer