recent work

Recently Ive been combining my oil paintings with my  architectural drawings to create spatial environments that have a textural and material quality. The paintings are oil on canvas whereas I layered different densities and thicknesses of paint and two dimensional shapes to create a shifting sense of space. The architectural drawings however are more narrative based - extracting a scene from a site or collaging many scenes at different scales of a site together so the experience of the site is depicted in its entirety in the one frame.
The image above is an over head view of the EUR site that extracts the phenomenal relationships between key componants and buildings of the site, and sets it against the regular grid like organisation of its urban layout. The two readings of the urban layout is that one is a result of a pedestrians visual memory and perception and the other is an architects measured division and zoning of a site.

The second image explores the same site as an interior; as a material that is effected in time; and as an overall arrangement of objects all at the same time. The viewer experiences a place in detail and in an overall view simultaneously. The place is remembered for all its parts. I really like the sensorial result of combining the paintings with the drawings so far. I think that there is something  cinematic occuring and would like to explore the connection between constructing a spatial quality and narrative more.