'Doing to get through' was a sequence of around 60 mono-prints I made in 2018. It had been a tough few years of major life events that had taken their toll on the attention I could give to my art practice.

Considering I would love to make a living from my art it is fairly idiotic to make these paintings on cooking foil, knowing full well they will become kind of trashy.

Always a challenge to write only one, but I like how it turned out. It is a long one, but I think I can just about get away with it:

I approach painting as a multidimensional medium, which suits my interest in impermanence and fluidity. I work with acrylic paint in all its states from slippy liquid to flakey dry, using glued-together aluminium cooking foil to make expansive paintings that resist ever being finished.

Anyway... I'm aware that I feel shy and vulnerable to show my drawings. But in recognition of these feelings and the dubious reason for them being there – I'm guessing it's down to the hegemony of the white male patriarch – and how those feelings have stifled my growth, this is a powerful reason for me to face up to my angst and continue making them to see where they lead me.

I listened carefully and was transfixed and energised by Phyllida’s words. She told stories about making work in the night while the kids slept. Incorporating the TV, ironing board, chairs, tables…

But despite this ‘tiny dot’ syndrome, I am passionate about protecting and awakening the agency we each have to make a positive contribution. For this, I’m certain we need to protect our imaginations, our time to think, our freedom to play, and our power to reach each other’s souls through art.

My work was hosted by a family in their home, and going up for a day of preparation work to make the floor cast foil surfaces, revealed a very familiar and welcome approach to living with children: messy, playful, child-friendly spaces mixed in with the lives of grown-ups.

Feeling walls with my fingers a few millimeters away from the surface. Resonance. A reverberation of touch from the sounds of the radius. The cut radius. A section. slice. piece. fragment. Entropic lands. Sand.