A series of paintings of water, executed in impermanent pigment, eroded with water in the process (eroded by moisture from dehumidifier / shot at with water pistol / run under tap water / submerged in river water) -

In 2012 I have had the fortune to work for a month in Japan. This experience has informed my next steps in treating paint differently from the expressive drawing | painting forms I have learnt in my initail years of studying art. This attention could not be satisfied with one work or one series of works only. I started asking what water had to say for itself in its own depictions, I continued to meditate on the accidental imprints that paint leaves behind, I let the sun have its own say in the discolouration of paint, and as much as i was tempted to try and capture the erosion of paint through paintings, I surrendered to let eroded paint show that for itself. stratum, residuum, depositum, and reliquum are the result of this curioisty and my ‘attending to the world’ before I knew I was doing so.