Artist statement“Making art requires being fully present, creating space forinvestigation, resolve and hope “I am a inter-disciplinary Artist and intuitive non-representational Painter. I invite an embodied andmeditative state to generate ritualistic processes to ‘extract’ my paintings. Painting allows me to alchemisefeelings into visual states so that people who encounter them, if they allow themselves, can journey throughtheir own states of resolve and hope. My work should provoke yet inspire a sense of joy.My work is deeply process-focused. To begin, they come out of meditations with colour as a usualstarting point. Then raw play allows for intuitive gestures that are automatically formed from my memorizediconography and gentle observation. … The emotional and visual vibrations, rhythms, and movement layeredcolours generate energize the work. Then I am guided by these and the shapes and spaces in front of me,and I ‘feel’ what to do next. The final and longest stages of my paintings are at the end, like a gestationalperiod, then, I let go.