My artistic practice is rooted in my understanding of drawing as a process-based art form with strong ties to intuition, as well as ways of knowing, feeling, and being. This “knowing” encompasses, though is not limited to, energetic concentrations of thinking and feeling that are experienced on emotive, cognitive, and physical levels. I consider drawing as a channel through which I can access these ways of knowing by engaging in dialogue with the immersive power of mark making. The result of these processes and methodologies are large-scale, gestural, abstract drawings that engage in the complexities of formal visual art language, as well as a wide range of material exploration.
Complimenting these process-based interests are other areas of research which inform my practice and evidence themselves in my work, such as: autobiography, experience, the body, physicality, sensation, perception, illusion, memory, fantasy, both the imagined and real, and material play. A philosophical outlook on the meeting place between the material, the visual, and the experiential is central to my artistic approach.
Continually within my practice, I seek to push and question my comfort zones, exploring the various ways in which something can be worked through, expressed, experienced, and understood. Through my studio research, I pursue avenues which consider that which both the body and mind carry, and attempt to innovatively expand upon the ways in which this can be translated to and represented within formal visual art language.
