Paintings | Drawings

…the vitality and memory of movement and sound captured on paper…

Late and Soon (2024)

Using gold foil, gilding rub and acrylic ink, these small paintings hold the essence of Max Richter’s piece of music of the same name Late and Soon. The music has a sense of slow motion falling and repetition which is at once impossible to hold on to and infinitely memorable.

Late and Soon 2. Gesso, gilding wax, acrylic ink, gold foil

Seventeen Minutes Past Eight (2023)

Working with 20:17 a piece of music by Icelandic composer and multi- instrumentalist Olafur Arnalds, and the German musician, composer and producer Nils Frahm, I am slowly and methodically layering metallic paints to create texture and movement.

Seventeen Minutes Past Eight 1a. 430 x 525mm framed

Seventeen Minutes past Eight 1b. 525 x 680mm framed

Seventeen Minutes Past Eight 1b. 525 680mm framed

Seventeen Minutes Past Eight 2a. 525 x 430 framed

Seventeen Minutes Past Eight 2a. 525 x 430mm framed

Seventeen Minutes Past Eight 2b. 525 x 680mm framed

Seventeen Minutes Past Eight 3a. 430 x 525mm framed

If. Not. Now. (2022)

The German Musician, composer and producer Nils Frahm says he is interested in “…what music does to people’s emotions. How we can change people’s attitudes with tones…”

Working with his album Spaces 2013 and in particular the tracks Says, Hammers and For - Peter - Toilet Brushes - More, I am bearing witness to how his music affects me physically and emotionally, responding directly onto paper using acrylic paint and graphite powder. With the series If. Not. Now I am answering Frahm’s clarity and momentum with dynamic layering and metallic lustre.

Where Freedom Resides. Paintings

In 2019, for Cockpit winter Open Studios, I created my first big wall painting. Working with Max Richter’s music Recomposed, I gave myself two full days to produce the piece using acrylic paints. It became the springboard for a continuing series of work Where Freedom Resides which began in the first weeks of the first covid lockdown in 2020 and continues to evolve in paint and in metal.

Where Freedom Resides painting 2. 730 x 555mm framed

Where Freedom Resides painting 3. 710 x 507mm framed

Where Freedom Resides painting 4. 560 x 420mm unframed

Where Freedom Resides painting 5. 590 x 417mm unframed

Where Freedom Resides studies

These six pieces are smaller studies for the Where Freedom Resides series, on handmade Japanese paper and using pastel, charcoal and acrylic paint.

Where Freedom resides study 1. 300 x 410mm unframed

Where Freedom Resides study 2. 300 x 410mm unframed

Where Freedom Resides study 3. 300 x 410mm unframed

Where Freedom Resides study 4. 300 x 410mm unframed

Where Freedom Resides study 5. 300 x 410mm unframed

Where Freedom Resides study 6. 300 x 410mm unframed

And I’ll Dance With You. Drawings

These drawings began as a commission and grew into a series.

Using Leonard Cohen’s Take This Waltz, the background to some of these drawings is a notation of the whole song picking out some of the words. The foreground is a particular dynamic moment within the song.

And I'll Dance With You drawing 1. 498 x 498mm unframed

And I'll Dance With You drawing 2. 420 x 420mm unframed

And I'll Dance With You drawing 3. 420 x 420mm unframed

And I'll Dance With You drawing 5. 420 x 420mm unframed

And I'll Dance With You drawing 6. 420 x 420mm unframed

What Isn’t Here Hasn’t Happened. Tracey Rowledge, Sarah Warsop

Commission by Siobhan Davies Dance in 2011, artist and bookbinder Tracey Rowledge and I collaborated to make a series of graphite drawings which explore mark-making through choreographed movement and the movement through mark-making.

To exhibit or purchase these drawings, please contact me directly.