My work is heavily inspired by kitsch, pop, and internet culture, taking elements like colour or shape and using them within abstract expressionist painting.  Primarily, I use acrylic paint as it has a plastic effect that can feel flat and artificial which is essential to my work and what it needs to convey. Bright colours, almost sickly in nature, are used in single shades with no tone or dimension, once again creating a flatness similar to a screen. Straight lines and blocks of colour as used to create something that could be synthetic, combined with unmistakably hand-made marks like splatters of brushstrokes. This creates tension as it tries to pull together something made with precision and structure and something that is quick and unpredictable in nature.

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Patterns are a recurring theme within my work, often inspired from movies or advertising. The pattern represents kitsch, the idea of mass-production under capitalism. The act of hand-painting a pattern which can easily be bought or found is somewhat ironic, as my work often is. By using expressive marks on top of this pattern, it once again creates that tension between the ideas of mass-production and abstract expressionist painting.

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The paintings I create are supposed to be fun to look at, oversaturated so much in gaudiness with its vivid, sickly sweet nature that it could be borderline difficult to look at. There is no sense of subtlety or restraint, it exists in a way unashamedly ridiculous.