What forms
2026

What Forms draws on my ongoing engagement with letterforms and the history of written language — the idea that marks carry meaning long after their original context has dissolved. Working with washed layers of colour, pastels, graphite and oil sticks, I embed and build up clusters of gestural writing until language becomes material trace. The source text speaks of extinct life embedded in matter, of understanding forming from fragments — which is also what the painting itself does, layer by layer.

Images from diverse disciplines
Imagined impressions and remnants
of extinct life embedded in material
Tracing the formation of understanding

100 × 100cm
Acrylic, pastels, graphite, chalk and oil stick on canvas