Dancing between digital and real worlds.

I create art that is the opposite of work made through artificial intelligence.

I transform the day-to-day elements I observe around me into abstract and semi-abstract art, playing on memories, emotions, and a strong sense of the sweetness and shortness of life.

First comes a fleeting visual moment when the light hits, I am there, and it is right. Something mundane in my surroundings startles me into looking hard, and then harder still and wanting to capture it as input for my art - the nubbly dark roughness of tree bark after rain, seed-heads shining like steel in the sun, water bubbling in a sink, elements of the natural and manmade world gloriously glowing, growing, rising, flowing and decaying. I long to capture them in depth and detail, abstracting and distilling their essence from them, I become greedy for their shapes, textures and colours. These moments of ‘startled fascination’ and obsessive looking come from nowhere and arise, I think, from a gift of a child-like stare in an adult head after my treatment for CPTSD. I create in the digital medium after making observational sketches and photographs and a final composition emerges that is often far distant from the original subject.

Taken together, my work tells a story of the wonder of the everyday and the power of art to heal and calm in the face of the fragility of life.