The exhibition brings together a selection of recent figurative works that explore how an image evolves through repeated interpretation. The exhibition presents oil paintings, drawings, and drypoint intaglios that return to the same motifs while shifting medium, scale, format, and use of colour. Rather than depicting literal physical transformation, these variations suggest changing emotional and psychological states, revealing how subtle formal decisions can alter the tone, structure, and meaning of a figure.

 

The exhibition grows out of the artist’s working process, which often begins with a small thumbnail sketch and unfolds through multiple stages before reaching a final painting. While this progression might appear linear, many preparatory studies possess a distinct clarity and presence of their own. In States of Matter, these works are presented not as transitional steps but as autonomous images, each carrying its own visual and emotional weight.

 

Drawings are explored both in their purest, linear form and in hybrid works that merge drawing and painting, testing how a motif behaves as its materials shift. This approach echoes a long artistic tradition, recalling artists such as James McNeill Whistler and Gustav Klimt, who reinterpreted images across media to expand their expressive potential.

 

The title reflects an interest in transformation: how an image can move through different forms, materials, and moods while remaining anchored to a single underlying subject.