My process involves collage, painting, pouring, stippling and layering paint on paper or card- my aim is to test the limits of the paper and paint. I am looking for reactions between the paint and the paper and how one layer of paint is impacted by the preceding layers. There is often buckling, cracking and distortions in colours. The unpredictability of this is a thrill to me. I am always testing the materials, colours and textures to act beyond what I expect and can control. I encourage the paint to do things it’s not supposed to do to create happy accidents. I use figures cut from glossy magazines such as Vogue, Harpers Bazaar and Tatler, as an act of subversion I cut up the magazines, collecting pictures of women, taking them from their original context.
