Acrylic on canvas
30 x 24cm
2026
Artist's Comment:
"I developed this painting through layers of colour, loose brushwork and marks that were gradually covered, broken through and revealed again. I kept allowing areas to appear and disappear, leaving glimpses of what was underneath rather than bringing everything fully into view.
There was something in this process that I kept returning to; the difference between what is hidden and what is there to be seen. Somethings need to be looked at, even when everything in us wants to turn away."
Poem for The Things We Refuse To See
Some things appear so clearly,
there can be no mistaking them.
And still we look beyond,
around,
anywhere but there.
Perhaps knowing is not the same as seeing.
Perhaps seeing asks something of us
we are not always ready to give.
So we let our eyes pass over,
and leave untouched,
the things we refuse to see.
Reserved for exhibition