Artist Statement
Creative imagination is the foundation of art. The prints that you are looking at are made up of small motifs such as this, squares, straight lines, pyramids, circles, square grids, wavy lines. I did not create a shape then fill in with the motifs, but by joining each one to the next at random the images just came out of the paper. The pictures are drawn free hand in pencil which I then reproduce as screen prints.
After completing my arts degree in 2007 I turned to the discipline of screen printing as a fresh medium to satisfy my boundless curiosity. I soon found that, by its nature, the process provided a framework for my long held fascination for both the physical and metaphysical aspects of positive and negative impressions. Intrigued by the compositional properties of black and white, both in terms of light and frequency, led to a series of works intent on exploring the transposition of the two. Each work is a freehand stream of consciousness. A motif geometric pattern randomly joined, to create the final image. The line work is then produced in duplicate, providing opposites, hopefully changing the viewer’s perception.
After completing my arts degree in 2007 I turned to the discipline of screen printing as a fresh medium to satisfy my boundless curiosity. I soon found that, by its nature, the process provided a framework for my long held fascination for both the physical and metaphysical aspects of positive and negative impressions. Intrigued by the compositional properties of black and white, both in terms of light and frequency, led to a series of works intent on exploring the transposition of the two. Each work is a freehand stream of consciousness. A motif geometric pattern randomly joined, to create the final image. The line work is then produced in duplicate, providing opposites, hopefully changing the viewer’s perception.