Artist Statement

Figures and space are my primary concerns. Human bodies communicate so much and placed together in a picture have such a narrative power. I am highly inspired by artists such as Georgia Spain and Edward Hopper for their use of bodies and narrative quality, as well as Wayne Theibauds use of colour.

My figures often look stuck with thick oil stick gridding which is a response to personal feelings of being stuck in spaces that are meant to be safe. I render figures by mixing translucent and opaque paint as the figures move and dance in their imagined spaces.

I am torn between two painting concerns, the narrative and the formal application. Sometimes I create groupings to display people who are undergoing conflict or calm in spaces that feel like they are falling apart, and other times, I just need to see a the line of Ultramarine oil stick or a thick bit of brown oil paint right next to a light translucent. yellow

As said by Borremans, “I am not sure what it is, but I have something to say in these paintings, its been making its way all these years”