‘Don’t be a Lemon,’ 2022. Collage
Statement:
Working across painting, printmaking, installation, collage and stop-motion animation, my creative journey is my tool to change my inner state and communicate with myself. Metacognition is about knowing what you know and combining this with various valuable Neuro Linguistic Programming techniques, I am able to explore my subconscious, bring my emotions to life and change how I perceive the world.
Working in abstraction allows me to visually capture thoughts and feelings that cannot be put into words. My reflective and mindful journey is represented and expressed through certain colours and shapes, that means much more than the label they are given. By making these uncertainties into a tangible form and expanding my painting away from the constraints of a stretched canvas, I can begin to deconstruct and bring order to my world as I know it to be.
‘It is no fun to be yellow. Maybe I am not yellow. I don’t know. I think maybe I am just partly yellow…What you should be is not yellow at all.’ – J.D. Salinger