Oil on Canvas
42x59cm   
 
My oil paintings of people and animals use a language of symbolism and motifs to explore the shifting psychological relationships between people, cultures and value systems.

The technique of the work is integral to its message. I paint in complex layers using combinations of indirect painting techniques borrowed from my studies of the old masters. The aesthetic of imprimatura, grisaille and glazing evoke a sense of tradition, history and craftsmanship at odds with the flashy immediacy of the world we now inhabit.

The work is aimed at viewers interested in culture as a system of meaning - particularly those considering how values, empathy, and social understanding are formed and transmitted. It asks whether traditional narrative structures that once carried communal knowledge are being transformed or displaced within digital culture, and what this shift might mean for contemporary experience.
 
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