Artist
Colour & Contradiction
This body of work explores nature versus synthetic perfection, and our desire to control, categorise and preserve the natural world. Using pressed flowers alongside paint and modular gridded structures, the work references colour charts, botanical samples and systems of order.
Small sections of untreated flowers are left exposed within each grouping, allowing them to slowly fade and change over time, whilst surrounding oversprayed panels remain fixed and uniform. I think of these painted areas as holding a kind of colour memory rather than colour truth, with some works almost obliterating colour altogether beneath white or black.
The work sits between something living and changing, and something controlled, repeated and preserved. Although it explores ideas of permanence and preservation, I also want it to feel visually joyful and immersive, inviting people to enjoy the colour and structure whilst taking time to notice what’s real beneath the surface.
