Personal Best from Wylies Baths series
My painting is concerned with the intimate; those quiet moments that may be unobserved by others but that have a filmic quality. I have always been fascinated by ordinary, everyday passages of time. My work is about both images of people and place and the way the audience can imagine themselves as part of these vignettes. My works are not portraits as such; rather they identify with the feeling of each subject and scene, whether it is suggesting the warmth of the sun on one’s skin, or the sensation of water on the body as it is submerged. These works provide a connection to the sensation of being in one’s own world. It is this identification with the present that gives these images a timeless quality.