''Integration" from the Latin root meaning " to make whole" explores themes of belonging, transition and acceptance.  The paintings emerge from the tension between these places- the landscape that forms us, the one we inhabit now and the one we are shaping.

Each painting is built through a process of layering, early layers are informed by memory rather than direct observation and are loosely, energetically created. These are then covered and worked on with more layers, scraping back paint revealing/exposing earlier marks or spaces in time.

The square format of each painting is used to disrupt the tradition portrait/landscape expectations, leaving us with a contained field where geographies must co-exist. A space of negotiation rather than depiction. 

Alongside the theme of past and present there is of course the question of future, the third element: the viewer. The landscapes are intentionally open and unresolved, inviting each persons lived experience to enter the painting.