Test of Resilience

The figures in this image intended to capture the interaction that might be found in a city’s streets, but were taken out of their environment to highlight movement and make it relatable to all current settings as crowds and large gatherings were generally not occurring due to lockdowns.  

Mementos of a Past Life, No. 2

Painted during the Covid-19 time of curfews and quarantine, I painted it as a reminder of what awaited us soon ahead, on the other side of the pandemic restrictions and the long colder months. I wanted to represent the nostalgia of summer and to portray a metaphor for summer inviting us in. Inspired by Joaquín Sorolla and his use of light and depiction of shadow and reflections, using subtle lilacs and deeper mauves.
I wanted the composition to be simple and uncomplicated, and I wanted it to be something quintessential of the Mediterranean during summer. Somewhere warm and familiar.
The staircase serves as the invitation to enter into the scene, into summer. And the colour palette I chose was to I chose the colour palette to help spark these memories – to be reminiscent of that familiar afternoon summer light on the Mediterranean coast, that embracing warmth of the sun, and those relaxing azures of the water.
With this painting, I wanted to trigger a warm and contented memory for the viewer but also more than that, I wanted to trigger a feeling – a longing.

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But, if we imagine a world like this - one that's endlessly full of magic - then at least it can exist in our minds, right? 

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Dreaming of taking a dip in the Scottish Highlands, a photomontage of 35mm photographs taken on a trip in Scotland in 2019. 

Taking a Dip in the Scottish Highlands

“Psychic Surgery” is an original oil painting that explores perception, symbolism, and inner transformation through a surreal palette of reds, blues, creams, and electric tones.

Inspired by the astral realm, this piece invites viewers to confront the layers beneath identity and appearance.

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Psychic Surgery

Mysterious

Yaas

Untitled (Dark)

An Intimacy Contained

Inertia of Comfort

Ghosts of Girlhood

Found Light

Eternizing the Ephemeral

Empty Shell

Dissipating

Cost of Acceptance

This painting is part of my “Ballet” series that focuses on movement and the practice and performance of dance.

"Abstracted Dancer, No. 1"

 
This piece focuses on capturing figures intertwined in an abstracted manner and intends to intensify the feeling of personal connection.   


Intertwined

The figures in this image intended to capture the interaction that might be found in a city’s streets.

"Sidewalks"

This painting is part of my “Ballet” series that focuses on movement and the practice and performance of dance.



"Pointe, No. 3"

This piece was meant to mimic the movement of a crowd during a rainstorm.

"Umbrellas"

Mementos of a Past Life, No. 1

Original oil on canvas painting, depicting swimmers in the hot midday sun down at a typical boathouse cove of the Mediterranean coast.

Midday Heat

Original oil on canvas painting, channelling those long summer days in the mediterranean sun and swimming in the transparent waters of the many hidden coves.

By the Boathouses

Oil on canvas painting depicting that evening light and silhouetted palm trees down by the beach in Barceloneta, Barcelona.

Palmeras en la Barceloneta

Island life, coast, sea, activity, but calming at the same time. Memories with family and friends. Special moments. Colour palette. The jagged rocks and the typical jetties, old and rotting wood. The white of the boats contrasting against the turquoise and ultramarines of the sea, and the orange and pinks of the land and stone. I wanted to depict all of these things with this painting, so as to create a feeling of warmth for the viewer - a nostalgia for summer in the Mediterranean.

Moored in Mallorca


Spanish for 'in the afternoon’, ‘Por la Tarde’ is an original oil on canvas painting, highlighting that quintessential mediterranean afternoon light and stillness of the water after a full day.

Por la Tarde

Original oil on canvas painting, inspired a photograph taken of boats in 'El Port de Sanitja’, in Menorca, one of the Balearic Islands. Capturing that quintessential mediterranean light and shallow, shimmering waters.

Balearic Light

Original oil on canvas painting, depicting the rugged and rocky coastline and shabby boathouses of Ibiza. Inspired by summers spent on this sun-kissed Balearic Island.

Aguas Ibicencas

Oil on canvas painting depicting the calmness underneath the ocean's surface, contrasted with a moving sky above.

Agua sin Gas

Undersea Dream

Bubbly Fish

Archipelago

"Strawberry Frosting"

Growth

Glow Shroom Diorama

Glow Shrooms

Cotton Candy Cosmos

Happy Place

Little Friends Pt. 1 
When friends from the computer world make their journey off the canvas



The culmination of acrylic on canvas, photoshop, illustrator, and photography.




Little Friends Pt. 1

A little bit dazed
A little bit open

A new world unfolding
A new world uncovered

Dazed.

An Exploration. 

Hot sand in the desert
burning, and quick 

dig your feet under
salvage, and cool

the sky seeded with clouds
embrace, and explore


An Exploration

The Circuit of Us. 
Part 1: The Earth
Part 2: The Machines
Part 3: The Singularity

The Earth. The Machines. The Singularity. The Earth. The Machines. The Singularity.

We live in a world made up of streams, rivers, oceans..plants, trees, rocks, and mountains. For us, it's what we call the natural world. Nature, that surrounds us. 

Railways, electricity, telephones, transistors, computers, and artificial intelligence. All made completely by humans.  

Are we creating a new world - the world of machines? One that mimics our natural world, filled with different species of technology, each with their own function, some intermingling and forming new models, while others remain in their original state, with singular functions. 

How is this world going to interact with us? How are we going to interact with our creations?


The Circuit of Us

This project explores the themes and complex emotions that one would suffer when living and managing with anxiety. The imagery you see here, are purposefully constructed to appear out of focus and under exposed to give the illusion of what one may experience when fighting with consuming thoughts that stem from dark corners of the fragile mind. The colours are used as an elegant disguise in order to ‘put a face on’ and parade from one place to another without knowing what the fragile mind holds; a combination of which the avant-garde and intense colour pallet, contradicts these consuming thoughts.

Paper Faces on Parade 

Solidarity is a collaborative film series created in light of the cancellation of degree shows. Emily Turner and Daniel Randall collaborated with performance artists to provide a platform that presented their visuals within alternative environments, developing interactions into new narratives. Directing Coral Ghost, Nest and At Dark, they attempt to reflect strength and power in times of isolation and social withdrawal. The process not only kept up their morale but also that of those involved.

Coral Ghost features Kim Ryan, a lone figure performing ritualistic, powerful bodily movements within a confined costume. Its solitude responds to social distancing, exhibiting strength through stance and vivid colouring regardless. The art breaks free of a gallery space, exploring life in multiple locations.

Nest collaborates with Emily Stewart and Kim Ryan, as a spiritual successor to their performance Yoni, exploring feminine power, ritualistic behaviour and the mind and body. Here they explore Randall’s hollow structure, a remnant of his past work, using fabric to blur identity and exaggerate movement. The pink cloth presents femininity alongside the Mylar blankets, resonating with the current health crisis. They are visually making a shelter.

At Dark centres on Emily Stewarts’ How’s Your Head? garment collection. A sense of eeriness develops, capturing the multiple balaclava-style masks at night, where we follow the figure's journey through a montage. Malevolence occurs between the health crisis and masks, made before and during the pandemic.

The stills from each film have become works of art in their own right, a visual prompt on the current issues we face in this climate.

Collaborators Daniel Randall (www.artconnect.com/profile/dr_visualart) and Emily Turner (www.artconnect.com/profile/emily-turner) 

Solidarity

FLOWER MIRROR MOON WATER

Learning To Care is a series of short films for Bell House, a charity for wider learning. The series aims to advise and educate those caring for people with dementia in an uplifting and positive way.

Your Mind Is A Garden explores the mindset of a daughter of someone with dementia as she shares her experiences, values and advice. The set is a visual representation of her internal garden that she must be tend in order for her to grow and flourish.

Your Mind Is A Garden

The Pigeon, a recurring theme in the artist's work. Are they watching us? Are they programmed to subtly track our every move? These primitive devices once carried classified messages. Are they trying to adapt to our modern world? This piece explores the Pigeon's attempt at fitting in, in a world that is always watching. "Act Normal, and Just Blend In" is the Pigeon's mantra.

A Pigeon's Dream - Just Blend In.

As big paintings do not work digital, you just cannot feel them and their fisical presence, I am trying to show the changes of mood and light on a painting and make it so digitally visible.

There is a shadow hanging over us....

During these past two months in quarantine, I find myself reflecting on common, everyday moments I took for granted when life was "normal." These two paintings ("Getting There" and "Petals on a Wet Black Bough") were inspired by scenes from my everyday commute on the metro back when life still involved taking public transportation. At the time, I was fascinated by the facial expressions I saw of strangers every morning, and was inspired by the idea of the metro car as a place suspended in time, where passengers are caught together in the in-between before getting off at their respective stops. My interpretation of "Taking Time" is an ode to the metro as a place and time shared by people who might never be together again, of which we're now deprived. 

image information: "Getting There", oil paint, 24"x36"
image information: "Petals on a Wet Black Bough," oil paint, 24"x30"

"Taking Time" submission

Hand stitched fashion items, inspired by music lyrics and some quotes.

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