CBP Artist of the Month: September 2023

Artist of the Month is an ongoing series where Contemporary British Painting (CBP) highlight one of their members. Each month the artist is selected and interviewed by fellow artist and member Paul Newman.

In this interview I talk about my ‘Shadow Sculpture’ painting series which are based on the creation of shadows with ‘invested objects’ lent by other people.
Reproduced in my paintings, each shadow becomes a manifestation of, or ‘remains‘ of, my exchange with the lender…I am interested in the moment when the painting takes on a life of its own and seems to guide my hand; when the colour-sculpted presence takes on an expression of ‘suchness’, and becomes an intricately detailed, solid form…