When I was about 7 or so, I saw a photo of Van Gogh’s Wheatfield with Crows in an old art book. The painting moved me so much, that in many ways, the moment was imprinted and changed something in me that defined a path for me. Since my Vincent Van Gogh fever has passed, so many artists have inspired, moved and taken me back to that moment in my childhood that motivated me to keep painting.
Where do you currently find inspiration?
Over the last couple of years or so, the late Robert Juniper’s art has inspired me greatly and taught me in many different ways how to tell a story in landscape.
Do you have a theme or favourite subject that you are exploring in your art practice right now?
The compositions of many great artists at the moment, especially Degas and Margret Woodward, their ways of grouping figures/shapes and colours to make an interesting composition as well as John Wolseley and Julie Mehretu’s kind of floating composition to depict the nature and urban environment with various mediums on different surfaces.
What have you been working on lately?
Colours and textures from the nature always fascinate me. My recent focus in art making has been building up surfaces with part random, part studied textures and exploring these layers with the visual elements observed, creating a vestige of a landscape
