Topic: An artist’s statement

An audience’s interpretation is one of the most important aspects of being an artist. Usually, through my artwork, I attempt to provoke themes such as movement and emotion. I like to place pieces with similar stylistic choices together to create an overall cohesive and pleasing look, I like to imagine them in an exhibition and to think about what the audience’s interpretation might be. It is especially important with some of my past pieces as I specifically aim to trigger intentional internal emotional conflict within a viewer simply by, for example, displaying a number of distressed faces together, or a calming background to create serenity and ease. I sometimes like to represent things such as depression, anxiety and fear. An internal conflict that many can relate to. I feel though as time goes on my issues change and therefore my artwork does too. It’s incredible how easily an artist is influenced by their lives, their lives are an artwork themselves if we think about it this way. I used to feel that issues with cmental health were somehow inescapable, I thought I needed to portray this. But using different techniques changes a piece, making paint drip, looking rustic, scratched, were things I used to put in my pieces constantly. It wasn’t until moving to Paris did I find my style drastically changed. My art becoming more dreamy and romanticised, aesthetically pleasing too.  I used to originally be inspired from one of my favorite artists ‘Januz Miralles’ a photographer, graphic designer and artist. His works display distorted faces and photographic manipulation of figures and human traits that all blend together under a dripping colour scheme, something that I was truly inspired by as they were both distorted but graceful and despite the busyness of the pieces they remain delightfully minimalist. It was like I’d found someone who matched my sense of style. It’s amazing to see how much I’ve changed over the past few years.