ABOUT

My practice is based on painting’s extensive traditions. Material enquiry is at the center of my work and I approach painting as a three-dimensional object rather than an illusion of an image on canvas.

My pictorial motifs comes from the environment we all share, both urban and natural. My paintings are inspired by traces and signs experienced and seen in these places. Such marks that fascinate me include scratches on lampposts, road marks in asphalt, worn paint layers in facades and beetle trails in tree trunks. I approach these signs as evidence of interactions.

Passage of time is my main subject matter. I use found and modified ready-made materials as parallels to traditional painting techniques. For example in my work oil-painted linen canvas is juxtaposed with a red ochre plank that has fallen from a wall of an old barn. By using different materials and techniques from long periods of time I try to encapsulate time in painting.