Vortex
2004
Oil on Linen
72" x 60"
SOLD
In creating these works I sneak glances at my emotional landscape and paint what I see (feel) in a visual idiom whose narrative character’s consist of colour, matter and form. This idiom is intricately circuitous and involute yet strangely literal at times. For example I might use a large red pulpy mass to invoke lovesickness, devotedness or obsession. A coil of vines, veins and small intestines might mean complicated neurotica, or recurring guilt. And a more complex form or system of forms might be a combination of all of the above emotional elements -its meaning shifting as its surroundings grow.
In creating these works I sneak glances at my emotional landscape and paint what I see (feel) in a visual idiom whose narrative character’s consist of colour, matter and form. This idiom is intricately circuitous and involute yet strangely literal at times. For example I might use a large red pulpy mass to invoke lovesickness, devotedness or obsession. A coil of vines, veins and small intestines might mean complicated neurotica, or recurring guilt. And a more complex form or system of forms might be a combination of all of the above emotional elements -its meaning shifting as its surroundings grow.
