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I’ve studied the portrait closely for many years and the work has slowly evolved into semi-abstract paintings that are an intimate study of human life. The ‘Heads’ represent the state and space we contain since birth. Stripped of surface they are a brutal and honest look at the human psyche. They are the ‘inscape’, our own personal landscape. They represent the essence of who we are.
The poet Gerald Manley Hopkins talks about "inscape" having to do with the individual essence and uniqueness in every physical thing. I’m interested in this as a concept: that truth is in human individuality.
I work from photographic portraits and drawings I’ve made.
I submit to my subject during the process, there’s a conscious attempt to be present and to let the materials guide me in response to what I’m seeing.
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