After Images, 2016

A series of 22 paintings (oil on board) and photographs. Birdwatchers often use the term, 'jizz,' when they are referring to the overall impression of a bird, garnered from the coming together of features such as movement, colour, shape, call and behaviour. An encounter with colour or movement may be the overriding sensory experience, but a positive identification depends on an amalgamation of the senses; a cross-examination of information; a process of accumulation and elimination and an overlapping and dis-entanglement of memory, and perception. Like being confronted by a ghost- an experience that may be fleeting- after which, a search begins. This group of images is first and foremost about searching.