These small works are like dream fragments. A swish of wind on the corner of a street. Something fleeting when we awake in the morning. Sometimes, something, an emotion or an image will float to the surface, the residue from the day, but more often than not we are left with a feeling, a fleeting moment captured and lost as we make our way back to this land of time leaving behind the dreamworld till another night.
I have chosen to marry photography and paint in my mixed media pieces I call; Paintography. My creative process is inspired by how I understand we create our night dreams. As a lifetime dreamer and member and Chair of the Arts committee for the International Association for the Study of Dreams since 2007 I have learnt a lot about dreams that has since inspired my creative process and the resulting works.
I use photography to capture the symbols of our everyday life around me and then use these images to collage onto a canvas with no pre-determined layout but rather attempting to leave the ego out of it and allow the unconscious to take over the process as much as possible. Each canvas depending on the size will have many photographs collaged onto the canvas. I then use acrylic paint as the emotional energy needed to create the Dreamscene within each piece again allowing for the paint to be generously expressed over the photos with no pre conceived ideas. I have learnt to trust this creative process and be ready for anything to happen as when we wake from a dream with no idea of its meaning.