It is my practice to be open to new ideas from personal conversations, memories, media sources, as well as the work of other artists, engaging with them in the visual conversation that is art. Approximately half of my current practice consists of placing brush to canvas. The scratching sound the brush makes invokes a meditative focus for me during the production of the painting itself.

While the bulk of my work deals with racism and sexism, and paintings dealing mainly with representational and figurative work, this current series of paintings evolved from a need to free myself from previous self-set constraints.

My process for painting this series involved restating and asserting. Aside from some standard artists brushes the acrylic paints were applied using a large house painting brush, my fingers, and a palette knife. Throughout the process the abstracted tree forms were restated several times. The background pushes forward with textured ridges, while the tree forms push forward with warm and hot colours. Thinly washed areas contrast with the thickly applied.

I am interested to see how this process will figure in future work.