Reflection…

Reflection is a good use of time, after recent crits which have received a mixed response, I have thought for some considerable amount of time about the personal psychology in my work and it usually comes back to my own rather poor childhood, loss of control and a loss of a voice, accompanied with instability in the home and my personal life. This combines together to create an anxiety around the subjects of loss, fear and mental health. These factors manifest into my art, they are not usually concerned with specific colours or shapes, Colour is very useful but often the absence of colour merely gives a veneer of nostalgia or a romanticised vision of calm or the utopia I crave, when ‘things’ were simpler or uncomplicated, this of course is not a reality but an imagined truth one wishes to adopt or use as artifice. Pouring your subjectivity on to a canvas is a projection of your psychology.

“…loss of control is always a source of fear, it is however, always the source of change.” (James Frey)