This solo exhibition, funded by Liverpool Hope University, aimed to showcase new paintings that included digital images and to include at least one double panel combination that I begun experimenting with for the first time in my last solo exhibition in 2023. The choice of all the works presented were determined by the particularity of the exhibition space which meant that two very large paintings were exhibited (one with a small panel attached), and eight very small paintings to accommodate the column walls between the large windows.

Since the early 2000s my work has consistently used processes of visual layering as an open-ended, improvisatory painting style that shows fragmentations of signage and text.

My paintings are constructed by combining poured, abstract configurations of transparent varnishes and opaque household paints with ready-made graphic stencils. The repeated pouring, in conjunction with the signs, form a physical process of flat-on-flat layering that reveals multiple perspectives and optical depths. In this way the paintings work through a series of impulses, riffs, accidents, false-starts and changes of mind, to arrive at a moment of dynamic complexity that can’t be planned. I have recently incorporated digital images of studio materials and tools to refer the viewer to the act of making a painting in the age of internet overload.