Conversations
2018 – 2022
In 2018, I attended a summer school at the Slade School of Art. Work that I have called ‘Conversations’ comes out of that experience.
The relationships and conversations between people is a linking theme.
I struggled through this period to find a language that worked. Montage, a non- descriptive use of colour, forms delineated with line were characteristics but increasingly more abstract elements come in as the only viable way to make something painterly and not illustrative.
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'Family Games', 2021, Approx A2, Acrylic on Paper.
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'At Cross Purposes', 2021,
90 x 80 cm Oil on Canvas
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‘Holding Court', 2020,
oil on Canvas 32” x 27”.
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