Surface Memory

My current series of paintings explores the idea of the surface as a site of memory - layered, weathered and bearing the quiet traces of what came before. Inspired by palimpsests, each work reveals and conceals in equal measure, building a sense of time not through narrative but through erosion, texture, and repetition.
Through veils of paint, embedded marks and partial erasures, Surface Memory invites contemplation of what lingers beneath, not only in the material, but in ourselves. These are paintings that hold silence, that suggest rather than state and that honour the way time leaves its trace on everything it touches.
 

Kintsu - Oil, plaster and natural earth pgments on wood | 30 x 40cm

Unfolding - Oil, wax and earth pigments on canvas | 100 x 120cm

Lacuna - Plaster, earth pigments, glazes on canvas | 60 x 75cm

Detail of Kintsu

Detail of Unfolding

Detail of Lacuna