The artist: My work focuses on painting and drawing in a photorealistic way. I enjoy the challenge that it takes to create this illusion because I find the formal qualities of painting - investigation of colour and shape, and what the medium of paint can do - appealing over having any deep conceptual or narrative element. The main medium I work with is oil paint on canvas and the subject is still life. I focus on reflections, patterns, glass, and mirrors. I use these mirrors and glass as a device to create abstraction within my work, which is a playful contrast to the photorealism.
I have currently been creating my own patterns and Op Art for my still-life setups, using glass to distort these works. I've begun adding a third layer-digital screens— to introduce glitches and pixelation, symbolizing a break in the digital world and complementing the broken glass in my compositions.