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I just enjoy the alchemy of painting. There is something both transformative and incredibly human about it; and having trained as a pharmacist, I am intrigued by the intersection of science and painting. The possibilities. I am interested in the connection between substance and form; between representation, perception and the consequential sensation or experience of it all. I am interested in what makes us human. I like to think of my painting practice as the exploration of human experience and as an artist, I use myself a lot. It is the most direct and real way I know in which to explore something of the world. Aside from our materiality, our physiology and biology, there is our sentience: our capacity to feel. Painting is my way of investigating something these things: of what I know of myself and what I understand of our wider human commonality. I am a figurative painter and often a self-portraitist, but rather than specific narratives, the paintings I make seek a more common understanding: they seek to explore that which connects us all. |
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