ARTIST’S STATEMENT

My current practice concerns architecture as an emblematic form, with paintings that evolve out of several stages of production. Preparatory drawing, the collection of photographs and the construction of fictitious collaged spaces, are key to the development of canvases.

The most recent series of oil paintings are imaginary landscapes featuring architecture, with a focus on time and place. Through their immersive and atmospheric spaces, these paintings connect with the parallel world of film and TV, with points of reference including classical romantic painting, science fiction and the history of speculative architectural design.

Alongside, an earlier series of semi-abstracted works, developed between 2010 and 2022, explored the process and language of painting, questioning how architectural form and pattern can be utilised within painting and drawing as a part of a constructed representation of an imaginary space. These paintings of fictitious spaces are usually large-scale and built up in layers.