My process always starts with a sense, an intuition, a question or enquiry which I'm unable to verbalise, so I create.

I choose my palette from the colours available in my personal stock of digital photographs. The palette is selected on a purely aesthetic basis, looking for those colours which most closely match the feelings which prompted my initial enquiry. I then mix directly onto my selected medium, to create new colour combinations.

I use Microsoft Paint principally for colour composition and arrangement, as I enjoy working within the functional limitations which it creates.

The exercise of creating takes the form of a gestural and indexical dialogue as I and the emergent piece interact over the course of weeks and months, the conversation taking on new nuances and connotations as it evolves and elucidates - the entire process becoming a form of meditation, reflection and release.

My initial work consists of selecting and arranging colours in broad blocks, followed by careful observation in order to learn what these colour combinations are telling me. I then use this information to inform my next move. With the beginnings of a dialogue in place, I then repeatedly experiment, developing and elaborating patterns, contexts and details over time, until the piece speaks coherently on its own, with no further prompting.

I'm often asked if the detail work is tedious. Although it is intense, I actually find it both relaxing and rewarding, as it eventually transforms the piece from an enquiry, into a visually enlightening response to my initially frustrated verbalisation. … Read More

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Education

BA (Joint Hons) Communication and Cultural Studies with Public Media, Leeds Trinity

Selected Competitions, Awards and Honours

2012 Long Stories for Perm: Perm Museum of Modern Art, Perm, Russia
2012 Shape Open 2012: Shape, Greenwood Place, London, UK (Finalist)
2012 LACDA International 2012: Los Angeles Centre For Digital Art, Los Angeles, USA
2012 Woolgather Art Prize: Oak House, Park Lane, Leeds, UK
2012 The Kress Project: Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, USA (Winner)

Selected Publications

2012 Woolgather: You Are Here #42. Published by Woolgather, Leeds, UK
2012 Design Week: You Are Here #7, Leeds. Published by Centaur Media, London, UK
2012 Rhythm / Rytmi: Bebop; Dance; Skate. Published by HESA Inprint, Helsinki, Finland … Read More