Biografia
I graduated from The Slade school of fine art in 2016, and I am currently a post graduate student in Painting at the Royal College of Art. I am a painter I was born one. Like freedom, painting is not something that can be attained but it is a birthright, and I am lucky. Mans most noble birthright is to bloom and through painting I wish to ascend.
Painting is not a support to thought or a precursor it is inseparable from it. Leading up to a painting I draw but none of my paintings are solely based on these. It is important for me to create instantaneously and not have any model but only a feeling. A strike on the heart.
When figures appear one by one or sometimes together I let them breath for a while before recognising who they are. Sometimes he is music and sometimes he is death.
For me the prevalence of the figure will never cease to diminish. For the painted woman is as much an image of death as she is of sex. This multiplicity of feeling embodies itself in the face and figure. We are in a constant state of becoming and I find this state to be the driving force behind my desire.
Once I draw how something feels it is committed to my memory. Memory consists of recollection in being not merely recollection of details. I am enamoured by myth, but I am not a storyteller. I use myth to attempt to understand. Myth is essential, the folk metaphysics if you will.
In light of myth can one reflect; taking Adam and Eve, that there was never one eve but many; and the serpent had no tail but another head.
I paint decisively and I know what I am doing, but my destination is never clear and seldom reached. Thought has no destination; it always opens up more space. Painting has no destination, it cannot end.
