Emma Somerset Davis is a painter, film maker and performance artist who encouraged me to do an MA and whose beautiful paintings inspired me to paint. She has this ability to put into words things that I can’t and to recognise in my work aspects i unconsciously hoped were there.

She has written this about my recent largest (150/120cm) and most ambitious painting (above) and has agreed to me posting it here:

…I really like the more sculptural forms appearing in this painting …these remind me of your found object  installation at Anna’s  …For me these forms are exciting as they animate and disrupt ‘meaningful’ orders of objects in the visible  of our day to day and make the invisible visible .. which is really inspiring and intriguing  ….… I  think this way of painting with more crystallised forms does something more interesting to your already loaded planes of colour/space in terms of exploring a mystical kind of action through painted objects, with the energy of paint rupturing and resisting  rather than creating narratives or characters…

Also visually strong for me is your more definite division of space through colour and line  …feels like a mysterious mapping of occupation/event/actions  ….. 

 ..I can’t really explain the feeling in words which is the sign of a very good painting though very exciting for you moving into this painting space