As an artist I aim to connect objects with colour and produce a level of visual satisfaction. My work starts its life as a digital experiment, enabling me to explore quickly and instinctually with colour changes and compositions; mark making and rhythmic shapes form a...
Temple of Consciousness Bronze, copper, clay, wood, recycled cardboard and paper, acrylic and spray paint, digital media. Temples are regarded as places of worship but they are also gateways to consciousness. They are places of peace and tranquillity. They are...
Hiraeth Last year marked the 50th anniversary of the drowning of the Welsh valley of Tryweryn in order to supply water to the city of Liverpool. This was a turning point in the political landscape of Wales and a wakeup call for many Welshmen and women. I was initially...
How Do You See It? Dyslexia has its positive and negative aspects. The positive side is that I am able to create personal artwork which is meaningful to me deriving from the condition of dyslexia. The negative is that it is often difficult to read, write and express...
The primary motivation for this body of work is our natural environment. I am inspired by the ephemeral compositions, structures and dwellings that I find in my surroundings. The drawing on fabric is the original form from which the prints are derived. This separation...
CYM (Cyan, Yellow, Magenta) This piece started with an interest in how the eye sees colour and how the human eye makes sense of the world around us. There are many things that the human eye has learnt to do over time through evolution that show the development of how...
Study of a Study for a Study "Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he's destroying is this God he's worshiping." - Hubert Reeves "If all the insects were to disappear from the earth,...
I've always been interested in abstraction; it is neither defined nor undefined. I enjoy making the viewer question the subject of my art, due to either the composition or the way the work is created. My work is photography based, mainly working in the darkroom; I...
Skin/Hair/Inside Social practices encourage us to smooth the skin and cover orifices. This allows us to ignore the human body as natural and organic. I am interested in social reaction and fear towards the Abject body. By displaying what we avoid showing, I aim to...
Pyg Na Gig I'm particularly interested in exploring the relationship between power and vulnerability which comes with self-exposure as a female artist. I express personal experiences and emotions through drawing and text; in particular self-portraiture and automatic...
Descent From "The Cross" In my current work, I am conveying the carnal and bestial nature we as humans are dealt with as primitive beings. By stripping the human form to its bare and fleshy structure through poses expressing primitive human instincts, the paintings...
ى ; ma’awa Being an international student from Amman (Jordan), I have been subject to scare after scare, as a result of biased and falsified main media stories being shared in the West. The heart-breaking chaos that has taken place in the Middle Eastern area; war,...
Synthesis Wood, Wool, Crystals, Steel. Through the allegories present in the work, I have highlighted the phenomena of Death, Decomposition and Rebirth through the catalyst of crystallisation. To highlight the eternal recurrence of life - energy passes from one form...
Sleep State One in four people will develop a mental illness in their lifetime. Using my own experiences with depression, my work attempts to portray just how debilitating a depressive swing can be, and how hard it can be to break out of. During these times, I retreat...
Memento Mori is the medieval form that was designed to act as a 'reminder of death', the theory of which was used to reflect upon one's mortality and the temporary state of one's life on earth, as well as to raise awareness of the transience of nature itself....
My work is concerned with nature; what excites me are the details that can be overlooked or unseen. I use photography, drawing and painting to create a re-imagined environment for the audience. By capturing this in a photograph or a painting, for me, gives these...
A Window into Consciousness The art I create has always been inspired by the unseen and the easily missed objects and ideas in everyday life. Raising the question, what is more over looked than the power of our own brains. There are many different ideas on what it...
My work deconstructs the ordinary notion of a car engine. I dismantle the engine in order to establish an understanding, and make visible what the human eye does not normally see. I shine light on the complexity and beauty components a standard engine possesses, and...
My practice aims to challenge and confront the sense of nostalgia inherent in traditional landscape painting that portrays unrealistic and romantic views of the land to highlight the harm to our natural environment as a result of human avarice, industry and neglect....
Do You Want to Come Home? 12am, 3am, 6am, 9am, 12pm, 3pm, 6pm, 9pm My work explores ideas of public and private, and the continuous struggle to understand what this means to me. How much do I really want to let people in? 12am, 3am, 6am, 9am, 12pm, 3pm, 6pm, 9pm is a...
My practice currently involves working with the relationship between the human figure and its environment. I work from collaged photographs of myself to create drawings and paintings that suggest an ambiguity of gender and narrative which are further abstracted by the...
Self 1 in 4 people in the UK suffer from mental health issues each year. My work hopes to create awareness and shed light on the stigma that comes with mental illness. Not only is mental illness more common than some people may think but it can also be an issue for...
Form/Formlessness Colour relationships are the subject of my painting practice. Beginning with the act of mixing colour on the palette I work intuitively to develop formal and perceptual relationships over a series of interlinked pieces. The intensity of the work...
I Just Want to Fucking Experience Your Wonderland 'Psychic automatism' is the fundamental ambition of my work; I am creating beyond the constrictions of the control of theme or concept. My work is not dictated by reason or rational order; instead it follows its own...
Depicting Consciousness My art practice is informed by a number of questions such as those involving the problems of consciousness as well as the boundaries that exist between us and the world. For our world to come into existence, two distinct forms are required to...
Anxiety As an artist I struggle to keep to one style due to feeling different levels of anxiety and pressure on different days; every piece I create can be completely different from the next. When I was younger my handwriting would change often due to the same...
The Printer's Tray "Objects are emotional and intellectual companions that anchor memory, sustain relationships and provoke new ideas." - Sherry Turkle Within my practice, I focus on the stories, relationships and memories that an object can provide. In particular, my...
Peripheral Landscapes My current practice explores the visual experiences of the human eye combined with the theory of harmonious and complementary colours to create my own interpretation of our vision. While peripheral radius covers most of the field of view for the...
Each of my works attempts to invoke the dynamism of everyday observations and how often we take the ability to observe for granted. With profound exploration of my environment, I have come to notice the beauty of puddle reflections within the urban environment on my...
To Look and Not Just See I can only see out of one eye, which leaves me with no binocular vision. Being stereo blind comes with a unique viewing point of the world for me as an Artist. My initial idea was to work creating a light installation piece that would show how...
Early Morning My art becomes actual through a process of absorption driven by a love for exploration, discovery, lucky accidents and unusual connections. I like to work instinctively as I find it can offer a wide scope for experimentation, progression and as a vehicle...
Inner Self My concept surrounds the idea of the psyche and portraiture, this has challenged my practice to become expressive and powerful through the use of gestural marks, vibrancy of colour and line. The art movement, Expressionism, has informed my practice greatly...
The Materiality of the Unconscious Mind The mind creates, the body reproduces. In the material reality, art objects are reproductions of the mind, a mind that uses the body as an organism to materialize ideas, patterns, and emotions. My work examines the need for...