This body of work explores nature versus synthetic perfection, and our desire to control, categorise and preserve the natural world. Using pressed flowers alongside paint and modular gridded structures, the work echoes colour charts, botanical samples and systems of order.
Within each grouping, small areas of untreated flowers are left exposed to naturally fade and change over time, contrasting with surrounding oversprayed panels that remain fixed and uniform. I think of these painted areas as holding a kind of colour memory rather than colour truth.
The work sits between something living and changing, and something controlled, repeated and preserved. It explores themes of permanence and the human instinct to organise nature into neat systems. Although my work engages with ideas of control and preservation, I also want it to feel visually joyful and immersive. I invite people to enjoy the colour and structure whilst also taking time to notice what’s real beneath the surface.