Within any great metropolis the natural ebb and flow of city life produces a multitude of differing facades. As an individual we flit between our solitary state and that of the collective. We are constantly navigating the geometry of the city, moving from facade to facade often without even noticing the different worlds we are traversing. Whilst we travel on the tube through the street to the office, we have journeyed through the shadows and silhouettes that make up the vast tapestry of our metropolis. These everyday images absorbed and contained within my memory become the inspiration for my work.

If we stop in the street to view the faces around us, feel the movement we are a part of and the significance we feel within ourselves, we become part of an image, a moment in time. When trying to recall these images from my experience, i am left with outlines, patches and figures. I am seeing the city in its metamorphic and ambiguous state, with its own life and highly geometric nature.

When painting, it is the essence of the city and our experience of it that I find fascinating and intriguing. These images etched in my mind bring me to question each individual’s experience. In this fast paced world is this all we see of each other? What do we actually absorb of the world around us? It may be that all we are actually left with is an extract of life as distilled by our memory.

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