PF: Who or what has influenced your work the most?
Moving to the coast and living amongst a smorgasbord of other creative souls who open my eyes and do cartwheels with my head and heart on a daily basis. We live the reality of my paintings.
PF: Walk us through your creative process?
I’ll be eating toast in a friend’s workshop when an arm reaches across the table. It dawns on me that I’m sitting within my next painting and I replace toast with pen and paper. I sketch from standing, tipping the picture plane and cropping abruptly. Monotypes follow to play and distort the colours and composition and then my tempestuous love affair with molten beeswax is let loose.
PF: What do you want people to feel or take away from your art?
That they’re not alone. I want them to feel like they can slip onto the empty chair at the table, pick up a fork and bring their thoughts or comfortable silence to the conversation. I carve into the layers of the beeswax allowing the gesso ground below to blink through, hopefully drawing the viewer in closer so they feel my rhythm and energy - once again encouraging the warmth of connection.
PF: If you could have dinner with any artist who would it be?
Chantal Joffee. The lilt in her voice is so soothing and the surfaces of her paintings are lick-able. For someone who delights in the butteriness of oil paint as much as she does, I’d suggest we’d eat only with our hands, it would seem fitting. From the many interviews I’ve read I think we’d have an honest, raw and under the carpet conversation which is the only way to communicate in my eyes.
Chantal Joffee. The lilt in her voice is so soothing and the surfaces of her paintings are lick-able. For someone who delights in the butteriness of oil paint as much as she does, I’d suggest we’d eat only with our hands, it would seem fitting. From the many interviews I’ve read I think we’d have an honest, raw and under the carpet conversation which is the only way to communicate in my eyes.