Ruth with an Ice Cream.
Acrylic on canvas.
305 X 405mm.
2025.
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Ruth Watering.
Acrylic on canvas.
305 X 405mm.
2025.
Baby Beluga.
Acrylic on canvas.
405 X 505mm.
2025.
Artist Statement
Artist Statement
This series is a collaborative exchange with my four-year-old daughter. She creates the abstract grounds to which I respond with representational layers drawn from photographs of her daily life. Each work unfolds as a kind of call-and-response, where her intuitive gestures and my reflective interventions create a shifting balance between play and intention, abstraction and depiction.The work represents a renewed commitment to studio practice and positions collaboration as both method and subject, a way of engaging with the changing dynamics between myself and my daughter.
Swimmer 4
Oil on hardboard.
350 X 350mm.
2014.
Swimmer 5
Oil on hardboard.
350 X 350mm.
2014.
Swimmer 6
Oil on hardboard.
350 X 350mm.
2014.
Swimmer 3
Oil on hardboard.
350 X 350mm.
2014.
Swimmer Group 1
Oil on canvas.
900 X 700mm.
2014.
Swimmer Group 2
Oil on canvas.
900 X 700mm.
2014.
Artist Statement
Artist Statement
Arising from a distaste of swimming and the lack of control in unfamiliar environments, these paintings study the idea of elegance versus inelegance of the human body outside of it's natural environment. The body reacts to the environment of water in beautiful yet peculiar ways. This is explored throughout the series and the swimmers are deliberately painted twisted in awkward, yet strangely elegant movement. The swimmers are removed from a naturally described background, they become unnaturally suspended in fluid brush-strokes which allude to water whilst outwardly expressing the physicality of paint. Their faces are obscured, adding to the oddity and cutting short expectations of elegance that are usually associated with swimming.
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