Back to the Future

The paintings are pared down, or built up out of basic blocks, using restricted colour palettes. The vocabulary has been influenced as much by the highly abstracted illusionism of cartoon backdrops, computer games, and Manga, as by Modernist painters such as Frank Stella, Barnett Newman, and Ellsworth Kelly.

There’s a dynamic play on multiple readings, and triggering competing associations in the paintings; it’s kept open-ended through economy of composition- leaving the viewer to fill in the gaps and pot-holes along the way.

memory
spatial linking
mental maps
multiple readings
narrative impulse
frozen image
partitioning space
perspective/maps
accumulation of images
Computer games
Tech
Tetris blocks
3d
layering
fiction
mazes, maps