Works created at the studio of the University of East London (2023-2024)

My paintings are a reconciliation with the act of painting as a collaboration with vibrant matter itself. These scrubbing scrublands and fluid spectres of modernity reveal the precariousness of visual meaning-making in a way that calls to mind N.J. Berrill’s cosmic reflections:

“Put together in the proper way and we all turn out to be a rather weak watery solution of salts and carbon compounds, more or less jellified. You and I, with all that we eat and the various bacteria, fungi and viruses that live so happily within us, are a mingling of the wind and water and dust that constitute the surface of the earth. The miracle is that such stuff as we are made of should walk and talk and know such things as song and sadness.” text here...