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New Portfolio Entry: Knowing I’ve added a new work, Knowing, to my portfolio. Like many of my recent paintings, it emerged through a process of listening rather than planning. There was no sketch, no predetermined outcome, and no attempt to force a particular image. Instead, the work was built gradually through layers of oil paint, allowing forms to surface and reveal themselves over time. The title came later. Knowing speaks to a kind of understanding that exists beyond language. Not...

Fragments. Symbols. Traces. These images are not complete works, but artefacts gathered from the ongoing development of Playing Chicken With God. Scattered across the surface are glyphs, spirals, figures, markings, and gestures—elements that emerge, disappear, and reappear throughout the body of work. Some arrive intentionally. Others reveal themselves only after the paint has settled. I often think of these details as archaeological fragments from a larger landscape. Individually they offer...

Re-Entry was created using a wet-on-wet painting technique, allowing the image to emerge through movement, atmosphere, and response rather than rigid planning. The work captures a moment of return. Something ancient and weathered moves through a luminous field, carrying the marks of a long journey. Gold surfaces break through darker structures as the form drifts between revelation and disappearance, suspended in a state of motion. Re-Entry is a reflection on passage, resilience, and the quiet...