Soft Pastel and Charcoal on Arches Paper

50x70cm

Compression was the first exploration into the emotions and experiences with the covid lockdown. For me, the experience came as a welcome relief. It was only until afterwards that I noticed the swirling inner tensions that percolated within. I have attempted to put these feelings into visual form using my artistic style. Feelings of energy having nowhere to go but around and around the same spots, crashing into each other, creating tension or simply weaving into nothing. 


Compression

Soft Pastel, Charcoal and Graphite on Arches Paper

50x70cm

2020


Plague Herald

Second Wave
Soft Pastel, Charcoal and Graphite on Arches Paper
50x70cm

Created during the start of the second wave; it is my second attempt at exploring my perspective on the corona phenomenon. This work is also inspired by Romanticism, the Hudson River and Düsseldorf schools. I have attempted to illustrate a similar situation that we may all be experiencing during these times. We are travelling through a wave that threatens to collapse upon us, encircling and narrowing our perspective of progress. The way forward is hampered by obstacles and great divides, the future is visible, but uncertain. A light guides us, but its form and source are unknowable. Still we must venture on, lest the waves crush us into darkness. 


Second Wave 

152x112cm (four separate panels)

Soft Pastel and Charcoal on Arches Paper

2019

The first in my Chaos series

Chaos One 

152x112cm (four separate panels)

Soft Pastel and Charcoal on Arches Paper

2019

Erupting from the Void, all life was created in a rampant confused force of energy, power, and mass. This series, completed during a residency at Takt Berlin investigates the forces that underpin existence. The works were inspired by mythology (particularly Greek), physics, Chaos Theory, Big Bang Theory, nature and fractals. I sought to unleash all of this extensive research and inspiration onto the paper and create images without overall direction

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