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I am an emerging British Abstract painter. Beginning my MFA at The Slade, UCL in September 2008 I have a magpie sensibility when it comes to the everyday, playfully borrowing and stealing images, colours and materials. Influences for the works are highly eclectic, ranging from the pastel shades of a Caribbean beach hut to the neon streets of New York, carnival costumes to cartoons, vintage furniture to creatures. A childlike theme runs throughout the work, which is evidenced through the application and colours of the paint. Waterfalls of oozing glossy paint cascades over flat crisp slabs of colour. Paint is dollopped, scribbled, poured, smudged and dragged. The deliberate ‘bad-handling’ of certain areas can be set against cool crisp areas. I want the work to be brazen, loud, whimsical and frolicsome.