Abstraction
When I first started making art, everything had to be perfect. Lines needed to be straight, colour needed to be perfectly balanced - it HAD to be just so.
Once I learned how to make all the different marks that I wanted to be able to make, I noticed that my art practice began to change.
Allow for Transformation
I stopped caring so much about giving a true view, and I started wanting to evoke a feeling.
When I say that my art is abstract, I mean that it doesn’t necessarily depict a certain place that you can recognize. But it always depicts an emotional place that you can feel.
I think that I have a unique take on that because I’ve been working with colour my whole life.
I started in fashion and textiles, and I moved into interior design. All of that taught me about texture, pattern, colour combinations, mood, and atmosphere.
In the last few months, I’ve been moving further away from landscapes and venturing into figurative and non-figurative abstract items and still life. I really enjoy drawing and painting bodies.
My pastel practice has transferred over to how I work with paint. I start with random marks, and then add colours and textures. By the time I’m done I have this emotional piece that really is a culmination of everything I felt while painting.
Emotional Work
This is my meditation. I have tried every form of meditation that you can possibly think of, and the only things that work for me are painting, journaling, and guided meditation.
Abstract painting is very freeing for my mind. I don’t have to focus on anything other than colours, textures, and shapes.
Because it’s not specific, I’m free to really pour my feelings out into the compositions. My abstract work is super emotional, and I find that it’s on another level of expression. I feel like I'm moving into a new era.
Expressionism, cubism, impressionism, and fauvism all rolled into one. I also really love pop art and graffiti, and that gets pulled into it.
Basically, I’m doing my own thing. I’m making myself happy and making the art that I want to show the world. It’s what I feel inside.
My feelings are complex, unnamable and unknowable. So when I’m painting, I'm expressing my feelings in a way that words can’t.
And I think that’s pretty magical.
