After many different phases and layers, this painting is finished. I think there were a few stages in which I could have left it and called it complete but this is a lesson I am trying to learn and painting is about process as much as the finished result. It is quite a traumatic process in many ways. I’ve decided to call it “Temerity”.
I’m going to call this piece “deluge” as it represents a downpour of artistic energy and pent up tensions. I have used oil, acrylic, gloss and emulsion paint as well as pencil, sand and varnish.
I am a painter facinated by ancient artforms and primitive cultures. This facination began whilst studying for my degree in Anthropology. I am interested in the beginings of expression and language in its pictorial form. My work is an attempt to access my unconcious mind and I create 'raw' artworks which express my internal emotions. My art practice links me into that instinctual drive for expression which began with our ancient ancestors.
