Unbounded

Medium: oils on wood panel
Size: 8″ x 10″
Framed: 9.2″ x 11.2″

Each artwork begins with a different kind of spark.
Some pieces are immediate and cathartic in nature, a way of letting a feeling fully exist on the page. These find their place in my sketchbooks, often accompanied by poems that deepen the emotion.

Larger and more elaborate paintings tend to emerge from thoughts I’ve carried for a long time… questions, ideas and aspects of life I’m still trying to understand or bring to light.

Lately, I’ve realised there are also paintings that begin as a kind of intention. It’s when I don’t necessarily paint what I feel or think about, but rather how I long to feel, what I wish to experience more of.

I began “Unbounded” at a time when I felt anxious and confined, partly by the external circumstances but perhaps even more by my own mind. I wanted to paint a sense of unrestricted freedom and serenity. In a way it became an attempt to reshape gently my inner landscape. I kept returning to open spaces, softened edges, layers of pale blues, violets and oranges that seemed to breathe more lightly than I could at the time.

It made me realise that not every painting reflects where we are.
Some paintings emerge from what is present.
Others are painted toward what feels possible.
Sometimes a painting is not a mirror.
Sometimes it is a doorway.