some of my work
my beautiful dystopia
How do you view the world around you?
If you are like me then there are moments every day in which we view our world from a utopian and dystopian perspective. We dream of a holiday only to have it interrupted by a WhatsApp with something to deal with. We see a pretty view out of the car window only to turn a corner and see rubbish blown onto a fence.
The news brings negativity and life can get manic but then there’s a walk in the park that has us feeling grounded. There’s a moment of escape in a morning cup of coffee that lifts our spirits. I find myself in this complex, crazy rollercoaster of a 21st Century experiencing all of this. Aren’t we all looking for a little slice of Utopia in the everyday?
This collection of ongoing paintings is a snapshot of how I view the world now, in our time. It is a glimmer of negativity and positivity that fills up our minds, even if we aren’t conscious of it.
I juxtapose manipulated digital media, traditional painting methods in oil and a subtle sprinkling of food-grade sparkle that takes inspiration from the influence of phone app filters. The overlaps are layered and complicated, not unlike the world we live in today. #lookingforutopias
'nature's end'
Oil painting layered over carefully selected areas of a treated digital print on stretched canvas. A subtle layer of fine food-grade glitter is applied via retouch varnish over the top.
60 x 90 x 4.5cm l unframed l 2021
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'copse'
Oil painting layered over carefully selected areas of a treated digital print on stretched canvas. A subtle layer of fine food-grade glitter is applied via retouch varnish over the top.
45 x 45 x 4.5cm l unframed l 2021
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'city'
Oil painting layered over carefully selected areas of a treated digital print on stretched canvas. A subtle layer of fine food-grade glitter is applied via retouch varnish over the top.
45 x 45 x 4.5cm l unframed l 2021
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saturation point
What’s your saturation point?
After I had a baby I found myself struggling to get any work done. It was outside the box time which involved climbing into the box.
The box was a smartphone, the medium was all the free creative and social apps I could download. This is where thinking about how to make art got very interesting and led to ongoing investigations into contemporary aesthetics.
This work explores the manipulation of my own photographs into a place that reaches what I consider to be the aesthetic saturation point. A stylised look and feel that comes from manipulating an image to its breaking point.
The hexagon shape that encases each image is deliberate. ‘It is a circle trying to be a square trying to be a circle’ ( I wish I could remember where I read that – I blame mom brain 
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@aestheticsaturationpoint
These images are fake, real, truth, lies and everything we come to expect from the depths of images found in social media.
I chose to focus on photographing what was around me and applying what I was experiencing online to my own photographs.
Perhaps they are art trying to be photographs trying to be art in our post-digital age.
Saturated I
Watercolour paint, photographic print, framed in hardwood with a hexagonal cut card mount.
36 x 36 x2.25cm (framed size) l 2021
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Saturated II
Watercolour paint, photographic print, framed in hardwood with a hexagonal cut card mount.
36 x 36 x2.25cm (framed size) l 2021
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Saturated III
Watercolour paint, photographic print, framed in hardwood with a hexagonal cut card mount.
36 x 36 x2.25cm (framed size) l 2021
Available to purchase
