My work explores, but doesn't resolve, the dualities of figure and ground, certainty and uncertainty. I build compositions that allow for multiple readings, where absences may shift into presence, and what first appears steady may slowly become unstable.
A sense of intimacy with a place or another person is always the spark, as I pull shapes from personal photographs and sketches, using these negative spaces and fragments to construct a line drawing that is a spatial conundrum. With this plan in hand, I improvise the rest, starting the painting with just one color and the color of the linen, choosing subsequent colors in turn as the painting develops.
The title of this show, Room Tone, is taken from the world of film and video production and refers to the sound of a room when everyone in it is still and silent. The phrase refers to what is present within a perceived absence.
