Kirpae is a continuing series of painting as collage.

Firstly, palettes are constructed from the artist’s drawing, painting and photography.

When photography is selected from, often it is the non-focal point or periphery of an image: a ruptured fold, a torn-out edge becomes the mark.

Marks and gestures when combined are improvised against, repeated, responded to
and re-formed as compositions.

These are then re-combined, re-drawn or re-painted to form collage as painting.

Phases of process applied to the collage are integral to a composition and can change its direction. As collage elements are further treated, eroded or manipulated negative space becomes a compositional element.

The collage is worked on separate to a composition and is often introduced ‘blind.’

Resolved compositions are exhibited as paintings at varying stages where they find form, as different versions.