My body of work utilises a range of languages ranging from abstract paintings, text-based paintings, to formal paintings of the nude, photography and poetry. All draw on universality of woman. The reoccurring, or underlying, theme of my work seems to be at is simplest, one of abstracting the feminine and feminising the abstract.

Abstract paintings

My paintings deal with details associated with Abstract expressionism; the gesture, stripes, drips and geometric structures are all motifs employed within a shifting field. Whilst appropriating, isolating and reconfiguring these individual languages, I endeavour to construct paintings that, although referencing abstract expressionism, nonetheless display a contemporary language. By directly referencing cogent feminine signifiers, by using such media as tights, synthetic hair, glitter and nail varnish, I hope to create paintings which reflect contemporary society?s feminine construct through the medium of abstract art.

Nudes

Throughout history the nude has fascinated artists. Today, contemporary interpretations of the nude can range from the realistic, to the pornographic, to the kitsch, to the monumental. My interest lies in the abstraction of the female form, not a literal representation, but the essence of what I perceive to be the feminine.