What is all of this about? 

A simple question and a good one. 

Just what does a word look like in colour? If you only had a paintbrush and a pot of paint and had no ability to write a letter at all, yet wanted to communicate, how would you? Which coloured pot would you pick up and why? 

Would it be to match your mood? To give volume to your expression? To get attention? To fade away? Would the word “grunt” just be a shade of grey? 

Gets ever more complicated when you think about sentences bound together. A poem about a dance in a communal space. What does that look like? How one word bounces off another, what does that do from one shade of a colour to another? 

Poetry and colour. 

I write a poem underneath every painting. On some, they are clearly visible. On others, less so. They are there though. The abstraction is directly lifted from my interpretation of those words, as they would appear in colour. 

Want to know what they are? Well, wherever the painting ends up, whatever wall it adorns, to that address is the poem sent. 

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All work is currently handcrafted in Bristol. 
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If you would like to get in touch about anything you see on this site, commissions or otherwise, please email:
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