About me
I am a Welsh abstract painter from South Wales currently studying my Masters in Fine Art at Cardiff School of Art and Design. As a process led artist I have researched unpredictability within abstract expressionism and abstract composition through gestural painting. My focus throughout my MFA is to explore chance through introducing new processes of rearrangement to generate shape and space. Painting is a form of escapism for me and can act as a release of emotion that is translated into a work of art through indulging in painting.
Artist statement
My practice focuses on abstraction through a juxtaposition of chance and control that I introduce through gestural painting, editing and rearrangement. I build a foundation that is expressive and reflective of the moment and edit these marks by blocking out negative space with colour. The purpose of my work is to generate shape and space within abstract compositions that challenge the viewer's ideas on how the paintings were made by disrupting the layers and marks, causing a push and pull effect. I see my practice as a form of escapism that allows me to generate imagery by immersing in the experience of painting that is reflective of the energy I have at the time.
"Paintings are there to be experienced, they are events. They are also to be mediated on and to be enjoyed by the senses; to be felt through the eye."
— John Hoyland
