Artist Statement
There is an emphasis on the emergence and experimental nature of practice-led research and of art as therapy to reduce anxiety, chronic pain and depression. Delving deeper into the unconscious mind during the process of a somewhat meditative, intuitive and cathartic process, imagined and perceived semi-abstract paintings arose with the use of various mixed media materials. The result is a trance like state that unleashes dormant energy and emotion that unlocks the un-representable and invisibility of states of flux and transfers unstable energy back to a positive continuum.
Black and white silver gelatin photography was integrated into some of my work as a result of general perceived interconnectivity with memory. The idea of attempting to erase memories through the physical act of painting can be likened to works by Gerhard Richter. Perceived landscapes and unknown places stemmed from unconscious and subconscious origins and seeks to explore the role that painting can play in the engagement and processing of memory and trauma.
Semi-abstract landscape painting is taken as a point of departure from which to analyse concepts of ‘sense of place’ in the context of traumatic memory. Jean-Francois Lyotard refers to such memories as the ‘lost shards’ of ‘past situations’. My practice attempts to engage with these lost shards through various material interventions into semi-abstract landscape painting.
There is an emphasis on the emergence and experimental nature of practice-led research and of art as therapy to reduce anxiety, chronic pain and depression. Delving deeper into the unconscious mind during the process of a somewhat meditative, intuitive and cathartic process, imagined and perceived semi-abstract paintings arose with the use of various mixed media materials. The result is a trance like state that unleashes dormant energy and emotion that unlocks the un-representable and invisibility of states of flux and transfers unstable energy back to a positive continuum.
Black and white silver gelatin photography was integrated into some of my work as a result of general perceived interconnectivity with memory. The idea of attempting to erase memories through the physical act of painting can be likened to works by Gerhard Richter. Perceived landscapes and unknown places stemmed from unconscious and subconscious origins and seeks to explore the role that painting can play in the engagement and processing of memory and trauma.
Semi-abstract landscape painting is taken as a point of departure from which to analyse concepts of ‘sense of place’ in the context of traumatic memory. Jean-Francois Lyotard refers to such memories as the ‘lost shards’ of ‘past situations’. My practice attempts to engage with these lost shards through various material interventions into semi-abstract landscape painting.
