Large Landscape Painting 1, 2023 hypha-gallery-farringdon Many years prior my grandmother

Many years prior my grandmother is found in a different image with the same pose and flowers

they fit within my varied output by being far removed from the source material - something I always do to make work 'mine' rather than belonging to the subject

a shape library

reflecting the tension between personal identity and cultural expectations

pastel palette of purples

Large Landscape Painting 1, 2023 hypha-gallery-farringdon Many years prior my grandmotherThis is another work in a series that used deconstructed photos as the starting point for a landscape painting. There is an enormous amount of underpainting and layering and the small areas that are exposed become structures.