Opening night:
Friday 1st August, 5pm – 7pm

These recent paintings draw inspiration from the quiet intensity and delicate nuance of Japanese woodblock prints- particularly their treatment of background and space.  I am heartened by the way these prints suggest vastness and atmosphere through restrained composition and subtle layering.  In response, I build my works through multiple layers of Colour and line, using muted tones that still carry a quiet richness.  Painted on board, these surfaces become spaces for both texture and reflection.

I am especially interested in surface- how the eye travels across flatness and depth, how forms hover or settle into silence.  Landforms are simplified, pared down to near abstraction, resembling cut-out collage shapes.  While the imagery might evoke familiar terrain, it remains intentionally ambiguous- these places could be anywhere, or nowhere at all.  They echo a broader tradition of landscape painting but with a contemporary stillness: calm, silent and open.

These paintings offer space for pause.  In their emptiness, they invite a kind of looking that is less about detail and more about presence.