ANTICIPATED

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There is something curious about painting a place from the other side of a screen, constructing moments that have not yet happened and spaces I have never physically occupied. Increasingly, this is how we first encounter the world around us: through images, forming impressions of places before experiencing them for ourselves.

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For Anticipated, that distance became part of the process. What began as an attraction to particular interiors developed into an exploration of how a place can be observed, interpreted and imagined before ever being there.

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Composition became central to this exploration. At times I responded closely to a single viewpoint; at others, I considered multiple vantage points, making decisions about what to include, what to leave out and where to direct the eye. Even when working closely from a single image, the act of painting introduces another layer of experience. Decisions around composition, colour, emphasis and omission become traces of my own attention, shifting the image from a record of a place into an interpretation of it.

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In this way, the painting becomes as much a record of looking as it is a record of place. My experience of observing and interpreting the image becomes embedded within the work, before the viewer brings their own experience to the scene.