Newcastle University

"My work tends to be figurative but always on the cusp of abstraction. The process makes the paintings, and I never know what a work will look like before I have made it. I tend to make an attractive mess, at first, which in painting terms is also a set of problems, then I work through them by adding and editing, hallucinating figures and actions which I paint in, then I take them out again leaving only small parts, then more figures and scenarios emerge, until eventually something strange and charismatic emerges. Sometimes this takes the form of a group of figures and forms in weird vignettes and other times it is a lone figure made up of a sum of different tempos and metabolisms, almost like a game of consequences played with myself. The legs might have a hot, fast tempo and blazing colour whereas the head is as calm as a Morandi jug. I steal from other painters all the time, but without footnotes. I tend to think of my paintings as a set of misquotes or malapropisms from the history of painting blended through one female imagination until the works reach an idiosyncratic wholeness."

Extract from the press release for ‘The Last Bohemian on the Costa Blanca’, Galerie Gregor Staiger, Zurich http://gregorstaiger.com/