New Art

DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE

REBORN

Creating art during lockdown wasn’t something I’d imagine I’d do. The first few months it was the furthest thing from my brain, maybe because my brain was numb. But the last two months I have created two pieces, Down The Rabbit Hole and Reborn.

They are in my usual current monochromatic style but I created my first primarily white one.

The black one is a large canvas I’ve had for a year unused as I wasn’t sure how to tackle. large piece without making a total mess of my living room! Normally you just lean large canvases against the studio wall and mess isn’t a consideration, but that can’t happen when you’re painting in your living room. In the end I put down a massive dust sheets and worked on it flat.

DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE

Down The Rabbit Hole is about those moments we get when we fixate on something that leads us, usually, nowhere good. There are many ways to you might find yourself down the rabbit hole - sometimes you might find out or see something by accident that you weren’t meant to see and before you know you’re fixating on it. It might be you go on a wild Google research trip to find your ex girlfriend or boyfriend, or your ex girlfriend or boyfriend’s new partner. Whatever form it might take, it is the Rabbit Hole is a dark place and hard to find your way out of.

REBORN

With Reborn I was exploring the concept of bringing something back to life. A rebirth, a resurrection. That something which was once perfect and pristine but when it’s brought back to life it’s a little tarnished, cracked, maybe even broken in places but it exists again. It's beautiful it’s in imperfection. We can never become physically born again, but we still make old, broken things into something more unique and perhaps even more beautiful than they were before.