Surface Memory

 

Unbroken - Oil, plaster, earth pigments and waxed thread on wood | 30 x 40cm

 

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

 

Lacuna - Oil, wax & pigments om panel, 60 x 75cm

 

Ember - Oil, wax & ash on wooden panel, 60 x 60cm

 
 
My current ongoing 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. 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.