This body of work is about our desire to organise and control nature, and the contrast between natural variation and synthetic perfection. I use pressed flowers, paint and strict grids to impose order and colour onto something that is naturally unpredictable.
Small sections of untreated flowers are left exposed, allowing them to slowly fade and change over time, while the surrounding oversprayed areas remain fixed and uniform. I think of these painted areas as holding a kind of colour memory rather than colour truth, with some works exaggerating natural colour and others obliterating it altogether beneath white or black.
The pieces are about permanence and preservation, but I also want them to feel visually joyful and immersive, full of colour and structure, with the real flowers always present beneath the surface.