Awe can be described as a reinforcing feeling where the more you look for it the more it can be found; a phenomenon I have become familiar with whilst creating work responding to photography and memory of awe within nature.

Part of something much bigger.

The reinforcing nature of feeling awe inspires my practice, as I respond to photographs where I remember feeling this way within the natural world.

When making art, it can allow for a slower pace, introspection where I can connect with elements, explicit and implicit, that particularly resonate, delicate forms, sensitivity, ambiguity, connection.

Paint builds and different colours compact onto my brushes, meaning different pressures of strokes allow different colours to emerge. In this sense the paintbrush holds memory too.

Layers within memory and paint both disappear and reemerge.

Sensitivity, reflection. Connection and ambiguity.

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