I’m interested in forms that are discovered rather than planned. My paintings develop through a process of building up and excavating the painted surface.
Working in acrylic, I layer paint and cut back into it, drawing through the surface with silicone tools and using sgraffito to reveal underlying colour. These techniques involve dragging, erasing and reworking, while brushed lines are introduced to articulate or disrupt emerging directions.
Each image is teased from a chaotic ground as I navigate the tension between control and accident.
Through these methods, ambiguous presences begin to surface, sometimes resolving into human or animal-like forms. These playful, shifting figures echo the phenomenon of Pareidolia—our tendency to perceive familiar images within randomness.
My work embraces this moment of recognition, allowing unexpected forms to emerge and continually challenging my own expectations of what the painting might become.