Snow Tree
The 'snow tree painting' (no11) is a recent experiment. consisting of a 3cms deep perspex container, it is filled with 5 litres of gloss paint. with no lid to the container the gloss paint seals itself and forms a skin. the painting is vulnerable; it is 'popable' the painting is alive, pop the skin of the paint and pour away to empty the painting. i think everyone and everything can be vulnerable and my paintings are no different. i try to give them an element of fear and caution. i have always wanted to have the idea that a painting can live on literally. that it can move with us, at the same speed. it can change its mind, change direction, disappear, live and die all at once.
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Blue And Orange Striped Painting(still From The Dream Series)
The 'dream series paintings'(no1&2) have evolved from the making of 'it always fells like im waiting for something to happen'(no3). to the viewer these paintings are a performance, but to me a painting. a mass dumping of wet paint they are brazenly alive. in the 'blue and orange striped painting'(no2) i have arranged four people to pour the paint from one trough to another, creating individual 'curtains of paint' they form one painting. a common assumption of painting is that you should let the paint dry.
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Baboon
these velvet painting come from the in-between part of the making and the finish line of a painting. the disregarded spills, and drips are often forgotten and left behind, the refuse drowning the studio floor. i recreate these fragments of paint from my own studio floor and delicately position them onto black velvet supports. they represent the history of an unobserved painting world and the history of my own methods.
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