I experiment with a wide range of painting practices - digital, watercolour, acrylic and oil paint. By using digital tools to mimic a sense of the real, I manipulate the materiality of oil paint within large scale paintings to create artworks that at first read as photographic or digitally rendered but are hand painted through a slow intuitive process of building up layers to build painterly atmosphere. I find these contradictory processes generative as they reflect my reality - of living between the digital and material world.
Infusing the painting with layers and glazes of oil paint to create a vibrant and luminous surface.
Painting with acrylic paint into digital painting outputs on canvas.
Working on large-scale oil paintings for my exhibition ‘Aura of Days’ at Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto 2022
Pouring in and painting with acrylic on a digital painting output on canvas.
Informed by a desire to bring my daily experience into my work, my process is intuitive. The oil paintings take a long time to produce through a nuanced process of painting, looking, and reworking. I love when underpainting shines through layers of glazing. My intent is to make paintings, be they digital or material, that push perception and play with expectation.
Below - please view a video that captures my studio process (summer, 2023)
Studio House (pre-renovation) in the the Kawartha Lakes region, 2.5 hours north-east of Toronto,