Dialogue Series

The Dialogue Series is a body of work created between 2020 and 2021 during the Covid lockdowns. This work arrived as a direct response to my observations around being isolated and how that precipitated a deeper internal dialogue. The series is also connected to themes of discourse, communication, impulse and obsession.

My painting process begins through a layering of materials by adhering paper to panels. The receptive and absorbent nature of paper allows me to incise and abrade the surface, building up imagery through repeated applications of acrylic paint, charcoal, graphite and oil pastels. Each layer is pushed and pulled until the desired imagery feels right and a sense of history is developed, landing in a place that exists between beauty and loss, decay and growth.

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