These large-format works are made directly onto raw, unprimed canvas using ground pigments, inks and inherited, well-used brushes.

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The process is deliberately pared back. Pigment stains, pools, bleeds and settles into the canvas; the worn brushes bring their own histories and imperfections to each gesture. Once a mark is made, I work with what has happened rather than trying to completely control it.

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There is very little between material, movement and surface. I create the conditions, then allow gravity, absorption, pigment and chance to play their part.

Minimal marks. Maximum thought, instinct and gesture.

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Each painting becomes a record of that encounter - between intention and accident, control and chance.