‘Don’t be a Lemon,’ 2022. Collage
Statement:
My creative journey is my tool to change my inner state and communicate with myself. Metacognition is about knowing what you know and combining this with various valuable Neuro Linguistic Programming techniques, I am able to explore my subconscious, bring my emotions to life and change how I perceive the world.
Working in abstraction allows me to visually capture thoughts and feelings that cannot be put into words. My reflective and mindful journey is represented and expressed through certain colours, shapes and objects, that mean much more than the label they are given. By making these uncertainties into a tangible form and expanding my painting away from the constraints of a stretched canvas, I can begin to deconstruct and bring order to my world as I know it to be.
‘It is no fun to be yellow. Maybe I am not yellow. I don’t know. I think maybe I am just partly yellow…What you should be is not yellow at all.’ – J.D. Salinger
Thoughts moving forward…
Over the past year or so I have been doing a lot of reflecting about what my practice means to me and what I want from it. From conversations with my Mentor Fen during the Society of Scottish Artist’s Mentorship Programme, I realised I had a bad habit of not revisiting older work.
My investigation into Yellow has been a journey for me, starting off in the 3rd year of my degree in 2017. Once my degree finished, through various opportunities and residencies I moved on to working with other colours that suited that time or space.
Now I think it’s time to unlock and revisit my Yellow again as nothing else feels more at home.
‘Play,’ (2024) Acrylic on Canvas
Play
Test Prints (2024) Chine Collé
I recently attended a Chine Collé class at Glasgow Print Studio. I find this technique really satisfying and I feel it fits into my practice well due to my love of collage.