Artist Statement
My paintings are built through a process of layering and removal. I drag acrylic paint across the canvas, then work back through it, obscuring, exposing and sometimes undoing what came before. Each pass changes the last.
In this recent body of work, saturated colours sit against exposed linen and traces of earlier layers. Repeated gestures give the paintings structure, while breaks and interruptions keep the surface unsettled. I am interested in the contrast between the immediacy of colour and the slower history of making that remains visible beneath it.