I carefully select images that I experience as honest and multifaceted. Moments of movement, human gestures and vulnerability. Images should not be posed, they should feel like filmstills. An ever-present urge in my practice has always been to find new ways of painting, whether it is the materials, concept or installation. I explore different media and depict the visible world through unconventional perspectives. I paint photorealistic motifs and smear the painting with a wide brush to blur the image. I engage my body in wide movements and brushstrokes, I vandalise, tidy up, cover, uncover and press paintings against each other. I combine materials to create a meeting between languages and rhythms. Sharpness meets blur, Dimensions are created much like views through foliage. A grey-dazed everyday life meets an unbridled abstraction, and despite their differences, a harmony exists. At other times work simply takes place in thin layers, with different mediums on top of each other several times over. The first lines of pencil and crayon shine through acrylics, spray paint and oil paint highlights. I like the idea of works that destabilise the eye and are reluctant to reveal themselves fully, instead providing visual cues or start games of whispers.
