Studying in the UK offered a wonderful experience of experimentation and wholehearted expression whilst the artistic influence from living in Italy has been about engaging in careful development and refinement that gives a sense of depth and involvement to the work. Exploring this technical and aesthetic balance between expression and refinement enables each painting to progress along an interesting journey of control and discovery. The thinking behind the artwork is in fact a search to convey the sense of flux, the fixed and the eternal that represents our constant flickering of thoughts between the past, present and prediction.
The landscape work is developed from a series of sketches and photos and through this period of visual investigation the perception of a place is further explored in the studio to form compositional ideas. The light, the weather and the textures in my early landscapes is still important in my new work where I have combined the atmospheric with stencil work and pattern.
