Statement
In my last project I had been working on natural forms, and concentrating on only using media I found myself (hence why many of the paintings are on stones or scraps of wood), or if that wasn't feasible I would work on second hand materials either from a charity shop, or from other similar organisations. The purpose of this was to send a message and trigger thought to the people around me about different uses for the things that would ordinarily have been thrown away such as the old bookcase I turned into a skull study. Because I had such success with this project and learnt so many new techniques and processes by adapting to different medias I have started a new project with the same similar guidelines (only second hand or 'found' materials to be used throughout the whole project).
Currently I am putting down the foundations for a new project I am starting based on the different landscapes and buildings around the area I live; There is an abundance of abandoned places (abandoned and trashed houses, a derelict abbey and other decaying buildings) and I am going to document the growth, beauty and nature which thrives and grows in the spring time inside these notoriously creepy sites. I am trying to expand and broaden the ways that people see things by painting them in a new light, showing the positive things people tend to overlook such as nature and wildlife re-claiming it's land when a building is left.
I am still developing different skills and I love to learn new and exiting techniques, so I am always researching different artists and incorporating the way they work into my own projects. This can send me into different directions, for example; in my last project I mixed the illustrative style of an artist called Hannes Hummel with the traditional painting techniques of an artist Joris Hoefnagel to produce a strange but exiting combination of completely different styles and genre's of art.
