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The relationship between digital work and studio painting is growing closer in my practice. Photographs of paintings and photographs blended to create hybrid spaces and events.


Omani, Thai and British Trees

60 x 80cm Oil and collage on canvas
A series of drawings of paddy fields in Mae Rim  during rainy season led to paintings where the play between surface and depth was ambiguous. The shadow shapes over the top are typical of Northern Thai balustrades.

Retreat

90 x 90cm Oil and collage on canvas

During an online discussion between Professor Anil Seth and Nigel Warburton, the former described how when art has sufficient ambiguity the viewers perception has space to provide interpretation. This is currently at the forefront of my thinking.

Sufficient Ambiguity

30 x 30 cm Oil and collage on canvas

The images in the press of this man being taken away for incarceration struck a nerve. It reads as a portrait, and then the surface reasserts itself and breaks the illusion of depth.

Inmate

60 x 90 cm Oil and collage on canvas
A painting of the forest which disrupts its own spatial organization. I now see that it is a hybrid of European and Thai forests, and relates to the 'Tree Diary' I kept over several weeks charting a relationship.

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