In different lights a blue may look bright blue, grey blue, dark blue or even blue-green. Which is real? Which can we touch? Colour is intangible, ungraspable, we feel that the colours around us are static but the reality is they are constantly changing and our actual experience of a particular colour is changed by its transparency and its surrounding colours. It will be different every time we encounter it. In my paintings I am working with this intangibleness in colour to explore the nature of the subtle energies that flow between and around us. This flow might be: ~ the movement of energy between our inner world and the outer world around us; ~ the subtle energy transferences of breath, heat, and non verbal energy in a fleeting moment with another species; ~ the meeting points between two seas with different salinity, they don’t merge easily so a place of energy exchange forms between them. These ‘between’ energies that flow and merge are intangible and mostly invisible. Colour is intangible but mostly visible. Within the third arena of painting I am able to explore and play with the push, pull and flow of these two intangibilities together. |
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Education Studied Fine Art at Wimbledon (Foundation) and Chelsea College of Art (BA Hons.) Group Exhibitions 2021 2019 ‘Time to Think’ Festival Pil d’Ours, France 2019 ‘Ex Libris’ CWND Residency Exhibition Canary Wharf London 2019 ‘Flow Photo’ National Waterways Museum, Liverpool 2019 ‘Flow Photo’ Gloucester Museum Canal and River Trust 2018 '40° Celsius' ASC Gallery, selected by Tabish Khan, Art Critic for Londonist 2014 'Artist Interrupted' Long White White Cloud, London 2013 ‘In All Directions’ 10 artists Degree Art, Vyner Street, London 2012 ‘Gold in the Crucible’ Hoxton Arches (Interactive Installation “A beaten Path to...’) Curated by Hanna Laura Kaljo 2012 Pecha Kucha talk 'Earth and the Subtle Energies that form a Beaten Path' 2011 ‘A Beaten Path to...’ Interactive Earth installation Group Exhibition Bromley by Bow 2010 ‘Spit and Scrub’ Open Studios ASC Bromley by Bow 1997 Exhibition at Paul Smith HQ Floral Street Covent Garden, London 1996 South London Gallery Group Exhibition 1996 Conductors Hallway Gallery, Camberwell Green, London Solo & Collaborative Projects 2015 'Traces & Echoes' Installation ASC Project Space London 2013 'Dips and Hollows' Solo Exhibition Unit 3 Project Space, Bromley-by-Bow London 2012 Film: ‘Terra Firma’ Split-screen Film Collaboration with Theatre Artist Jennifer Farmer Shown at Hackney WicKed Film Festival 2012 Residencies 2018 CWND, Wood Wharf Construction Site at Canary Wharf London E14 (This resulted in a series of photographs of layered colour light reflections on water) 2015 ASC Project Space Residency 'Traces & Echoes' (Installation exploring the subtle energies of place through colour line and space) 2013 Degree Art Gallery, Vyner St, London E2 Awards 2003 Competition Winner:: Intranet Icon Design for the London Chamber of Commerce 1993 Hilda Martindale Award. |