Aer (2026)

'Aer (2026)' grew out of a simple obsession: the marks we leave on the earth when seen from above and features a short series of paintings 1200 x 1000mm onto canvas

I found myself drawn to aerial images of cracks and fissures, roads and railways, rivers, dirt tracks and spreading settlements - all those lines, scars and pathways that quietly map our presence across the landscape. From a distance they stop being functional and start becoming abstract: gestures, rhythms, collisions of colour and texture.

These paintings try to capture that feeling. Each canvas is built slowly, layer by layer, using paint, collage, stencilling and rough physical processes. I’m interested in the tension between surface and depth - works that feel both flat and strangely dimensional, like fragments of maps that need to be in 3D.

Aer is less about depicting places and more about sensing them: the beauty in flaws, fractures and routes, and the quiet poetry of landscapes shaped by time, weather and human hands.