2025-2026

These paintings continue my use of egg tempera, a medium in which the paint is created each day, mixing pigments with the yolk of an egg. It is a painting technique that has been used since the Middle Ages, known for its lustrous colour and longevity.

The surface is built slowly through layers of colour, with each layer altering and responding to those beneath it. The process is repetitive and time-consuming, and the duration of its making becomes embedded in the work itself. The colour palette is derived from a photograph that acts as a point of departure rather than a representational template.

These source images are often of everyday moments or places of personal significance. In using them as a starting point, I am questioning how colour can distil, preserve, and transform a moment over time.

This work is part of the first series of paintings made following the birth of my second child. The paintings draw from photographs taken over this period of my life, encompassing both significant occasions and more ordinary moments. Through the process of painting, distinctions between these experiences become less fixed; they are instead a broader accumulation of time, memory, and attention.

Rather than depicting an illusionistic space, the work exists as a record of decision-making, gestures, and moments of attention.

Areas of the paper remain visible throughout, allowing the history of its making to remain visible.