This is a large mixed media - oil, acrylic, iron filings, salt, graphite dust painting on canvas, from a small series of paintings and drawings, titled Neon And Rust.

The photographs show the painting hung at Oriel Myrddin for the Roger Cecil + 4 Contemporary Artists exhibition (Sarah Poland, Helen Booth, Catrin Llwyd Evans and Laura Edmunds).

Small collages from the same series can be seen on page Print & Collage.

The work is framed with a simple white painted wooden band - this both protects the edges and doesn’t distract from the painting.

Artist Statement

This series was made after I spent some time living off-grid in an eighty-acre Welsh oak woodland. There was a timber framer, a rusty forge and a Lot of trees.

When I emerged I would often head to the sea for it’s brightness, often pale colours and sparkle. The contrast was stark and sometimes in the girders, lido’s and sea defences, I came across neon and rust.

I am intrigued by the idea that opposites are always present and attempt to paint contradictions of personality and situation. I am interested in differences of rhythm, tempo and repetition, and how they produce irregularity in marks, layers; also colours and their inherent instability.

All of these contradict the inherent flatness of paintings. We share a liminal existence: occupying a position at, or on both sides of a boundary or threshold. Experiences offer many thresholds between the physical and transcendental, thought and realisation, present, future, past - this is where I seek to explore the possibilities and impossibilities of expressing these liminal moments in paint.

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