Aimed at investigating colour and its manifestations but particularly as an unstable and unsettling factor, with the potential to generate feelings and responses that are in constant dialogue with the viewer. This question might arise from an interest in how the image in art emerges from visual-material relationships, but then transcends the bounds of the painted surface into pure sensation.
I am not interested in cultural contexts of colour as such in my works, but more in exploring how colour articulates itself between feeling and thoughtful response, and between formal, tonal surface and spatial relationships.
The nature of colour is of movement and constant fluctuation. I wondered if the actual colour can be ever seen or known. As the tonal value of colour it’s always dependent on its external light source.
The question of how colour is perceived has furthered added to its spell and a subject of fascination for me.
Colour is expressed through a journey of codifications to diagrammatic composition within a modular and spatial dynamic where the parts relate to the whole, where the whole is not only the sum of its parts but is also an entirely different entity. Colour and painting in themselves are seductive in their simplicity and directness, as evoked through paint’s own virtue. For me, by means of pure colour speaking through its own voice, song and rhythm.
I find the roots of creativity in the very material qualities of the substances I use when painting. The approach taken engages interaction between the formal and the playful, between rational planning and contingency, within sites of visual and spatial potentiality where intuition, chance and improvised response generate unique configurations
Modulatum
4800x2400mmVarious pigments and acrylic on board and cedar wood.Black Asterisk Gallery, Auckland 2016
Modulatum
4800x2400mmVarious pigments and acrylic on board and cedar wood.Black Asterisk Gallery, Auckland 2016
Modulatum reflected
1095x2400mmVarious pigments and acrylic on board and cedar wood.Black Asterisk Gallery, Auckland 2016
Modulatum (detail)
4800x2400mm, 201612 modules, various pigments and acrylic on board and cedar wood.
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Master in Visual Arts Grad Show 2014 St Paul Street Gallery, AUT, Auckland NZ7 x 1150 x 2200 mm, (from left) Orange chrome, Prussian Blue, Cobalt Blue, Copper Blue, Ultramarine Red, Yellow Ocher, Madder Lake, Acrylic Blue on wood panel. 2014
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Master in Visual Arts Grad Show 2014 St Paul Street Gallery, AUT, Auckland NZ7 x 1150 x 2200 mm, (from left) Orange chrome, Prussian Blue, Cobalt Blue, Copper Blue, Ultramarine Red, Yellow Ocher, Madder Lake, Acrylic Blue on wood panel. 2014
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Master in Visual Arts Grad Show 2014 St Paul Street Gallery, AUT, Auckland NZ7 x 1150 x 2200 mm, (from left) Orange chrome, Prussian Blue, Cobalt Blue, Copper Blue, Ultramarine Red, Yellow Ocher, Madder Lake, Acrylic Blue on wood panel. 2014
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Grad Show 2014 St Paul Street Gallery, AUT, Auckland NZ7 x 2200 x 1150 mm, (from left) Orange chrome, Prussian Blue, Cobalt Blue, Copper Blue, Ultramarine Red, Yellow Ocher, Madder Lake, Acrylic Blue on wood panel. 2014
Untitled (detail)
Grad Show 2014 St Paul Street Gallery, AUT, Auckland NZ7 x 2200 x 1150 mm, (from left) Orange chrome, Prussian Blue, Cobalt Blue, Copper Blue, Ultramarine Red, Yellow Ocher, Madder Lake, Acrylic Blue on wood panel. 2014
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1440mm x1200mm, 2016Various pigments and acrylic on board
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Grad Show 2014 St Paul Street Gallery, AUT, Auckland NZ7 x 2200 x 1150 mm, (from left) Orange chrome, Prussian Blue, Cobalt Blue, Copper Blue, Ultramarine Red, Yellow Ocher, Madder Lake, Acrylic Blue on wood panel. 2014
18 x 140 x 140 mmAssorted pigments and ground semi precious stones on board on painters trolley, 2014St Paul Street Gallery 3
18 x 140 x 140 mm Assorted pigments and ground semi precious stones on board on painters trolley, 2014 St Paul Street Gallery 3
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18 x 140 x 140 mm, Assorted Pigments and ground semi precious stones on board, 2014
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4 x 750 x 1000 mm, Pigment and medium and acrylic paint on board, 2014
Red, Blue, Yellow and Wood panel
3x 1000 x 750mm, Pigment and medium on board,blue tape, 2014
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2 x 750 x 1000 mm, 2014Pigment and medium and acrylic on board, St. Paul Street Gallery 3
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2 x 750 x 1000 mm, 2014 Pigment and medium and acrylic on board, St. Paul Street Gallery 3
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2 x 750 x 1000 mm, 2014 Pigment and medium and acrylic paint on board, St. Paul Street Gallery 3
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Pigment and medium and acrylic paint on board, 6 x 750 x 1000 mm, 2014St Paul Street Gallery 3
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6 x 750 x 1000 mmPigment and medium and acrylic paint on board, 2014St Paul Street Gallery 3
2x 90 x 900mmPigment and medium on board, 2014St Paul Street Gallery 3
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2x 90 x 900mmPigment and medium on board, 2014St Paul Street Gallery 3
Courtesy image from artsdiary,co.nz
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550 x 550 mm, 4 modules, pigment and mixed media on canvas glued on board, 2014
Echo
1050x1200mm, 20163 modules, pigment and acrylic on board.
Minus
700 x 500mm, Pigment and medium on hematite ground on 4 wooden modules plus blue tape, 2014
hiya
Minus
700 x 500mm, Pigment and medium on hematite ground on 4 wooden modules with blue tape, 2014
Viridian
11 colour modules, acrylic on board, 1600x1200mm, 2022
Ochre motion
canvas on wood and mixed media, 450x300mm, 2019
Red motion
canvas on wood and mixed media,450x300mm, 2019
Copper blue motion
canvas on wood and mixed media,450x300mm, 2019
Prussian blue motion
canvas on wood and mixed media,450x300mm, 2019
Malachite motion
canvas on wood and mixed media,500x400mm, 2019
Magenta
mixed media on board, 1000x1000mm, 2018
Red harmony
20 colour plates, [pigments on haematite ground on board, 1000x200mm, 2023