Experiencing falling as an idea and action: Leaving the Berlin studio; one of those stairways in Berlin that gets full light for an hour a day. The cold cement, my butt, my wrist. I fall. After picking myself up from the stairs, I realised I was interested in falling, thinking about it and reframing my view of it. Cycles of impermanence.

The falling motif informed the forms, notes and subsequent titles of the works in this show. Waterfalls and leaves influence abstract drawings and watercolours, from which three-dimensional steam bent canvases are made.

Elements are moved, attached, removed, painted and coupled. As I work on these paintings, I also work on the parts of my life that are falling. A list of Notes on Falling, accompanies the show. The allegorical nature of the notes provides an entry point to the paintings, the titles of which are derived from these notes. Although the notes and paintings exist side by side, it is intended that they complement each other.

They are composed of small moments to remind me of my place in the natural environment and in time.

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The flowers drink the water. Oil, acrylic, gesso and linen on steam bent artist support. 170 x 100 x 8 cm 2020

The green in your eyes, reflects the green in me. Oil, acrylic, gesso and linen on steam bent artist support. 150 x 84 x 8cm 2020

Beginnings always hide themselves in endings. Oil, acrylic, gesso and linen on steam bent artist support. 157 x 34 x 8cm 2020

Eat, because you will be eaten. Oil, acrylic, gesso and linen on steam bent artist support. 174 x 85 x 10cm 2021

A beautiful woman waits with me at the lights, together and separate. She lights a cigarette, exhales, I breathe a cloud of smoke. I think of her breath in my lungs -Prenzlauerburg, Berlin. Oil, acrylic, gesso and linen on steam bent artist supports. 210 x 92 x 14cm 2021

That might be the way you live your life, but it almost got me killed. (Live moderately paced, die moderately old). Oil, acrylic, gesso and linen on steam bent artist supports. 100 x 90 x 10 cm 2021

After a while I could see what you saw. Oil, acrylic, gesso and linen on steam bent artist support. 200 x 55 x 10cm 2020

I needed to let all of these imprints fall from me. ***I think I was laying at the foot of my bed. My imprint in the covers. Thinking of the ones that shape me. Oil, acrylic, gesso and linen on steam bent artist support. 185 x 70 x 8cm 2021

Everything is so strenuous, so exhausting on the heart and the soul...then I stick my head out the window like a dog, life seems so simple here. Oil, acrylic, gesso and linen on steam bent artist supports. 65 x 68 x 10cm

You end up chasing the thing that chases you. Oil, acrylic, gesso and linen on steam bent artist support. 205 x6 7x 10cm 2020

The weather is crisp, the light is cool and bright. I stop to smell the neighbours rose garden - Hope street. Oil, acrylic, gesso and linen on steam bent artist support. 103 x 24 x 6 cm 2020

I'm Sorry, my vision was partially obscured. Oil, acrylic, gesso and linen on steam bent artist supports. 200 x 118 x 10cm 2021

I hear my mind say, I'm doing fine, my life is a walk through the pines. Oil, acrylic, gesso and linen on steam bent artist support. 208 x 40 x 12cm 2021

Cool rain, kiss me. Oil, acrylic, gesso and linen on steam bent artist supports. 68 x 36 x 5 cm 2020

Exactly what I wanted to find was already mine. Oil, acrylic, gesso and linen on steam bent artist support. 218 x 57 x 8cm 2021

If you quit now it's going to haunt you the rest of your life. Oil, acrylic, gesso and linen on steam bent artist supports. 85 x 45 x 9 cm 2020

I can hear the forest breathe; the wind rushing through the trees up the valley, minutes before the wind hits us. Oil, acrylic, gesso and linen on steam bent artist support. 194 x 48 x 12cm 2021

People either walk in a straight line or drift when they walk. The leaves under our feet get picked up into a whirlwind, it dances in the same direction as us. Oil, acrylic, gesso and linen on steam bent artist supports. 144 x 40 x 9cm 2021

When I was a boy, I had dreams where I could fly with my arms spread out. When I was in Greece, my dreams were of snakes. Oil, acrylic, gesso and linen on steam bent artist support. 100 x 60 x 5cm 2021

The water falling over the cliff, the liquid atomised. A fine mist clouds the base. This mist forms small waterfalls on my glasses. The waterfall continues. Oil, acrylic, gesso and rain on linen. 150 x 110 x 3.5cm 2019

I keep hearing people say, it's funny how time slips away. Oil, acrylic, gesso and rain on linen. 150 x 110 x 3.5cm 2019

I am riding my motorbike out of the city. The highway cold always becomes hard to handle in Autumn. Disassociating. I generally follow my head; I know the direction. Sometimes I get lost, so I follow my heart. It feels like it should be there and most of the time it is. Whenever there is a stop, I warm my hands on the engine. Acrylic, rain, linen and shaped canvas. 150 x 110 x 3.5cm 2021

I know I made so many mistakes, most of the time I refused to change. Oil, acrylic, rain, linen and shaped canvas. 150 x 110 x 3.5cm 2019

No matter how dark the storm gets overhead, they say someone is watching from the calm at the edge. Oil, acrylic, rain, linen and shaped canvas. 150 x 110 x 3.5cm 2019