I work in colour the way some work in clay — shaping it, layering it, tearing it back to let something ‘other’ breathe through. Each painting is a kind of excavation and reworking of a landscape, internal or external.
My abstract works are born from a deep, lifelong engagement with colour, surface, and the poetic principles of haikai — the evocative Japanese aesthetic that gave rise to haiku. That influence, along with time spent living in Japan, informs the visual sensibility of my work: ambiguous, calligraphic, and open to multiple interpretations.
I invite the viewer to become part of the composition. Orientation is optional. Meaning is fluid. A work hung upside down may speak more truthfully than one hung ‘correctly’.
Raised by my mother, Patricia Howell— herself an expressive and prolific painter — I grew up immersed in colour and visual conversation. That creative intensity continues to pulse through my work, where the seen and the unseen intersect.
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