TEXTURA SERiES
Painting by instinct, not instruction.
Textura is a painting project where things get a bit more hands-on and slightly more chaotic.
This series of abstract acrylic and enamel paintings picks up where the photographs leave off: surface, gesture, imperfection, and that inexplicable satisfaction you get when a streak of paint accidentally looks like it means something profound.
Unlike the camera, which politely captures what already exists, these paintings are made with no reference, no plan - just layers, loops, scratches, and colour doing whatever it wants (within reason).
The art of making a mess, then making sense of it.
Each piece starts with a blank surface and a vague idea, and then veers off completely. Paint is poured, dragged, smeared, scratched. Some works are loud and gestural, others more tangled and intricate. There's usually a point where it all looks dreadful, then, somehow, it turns a corner.
It's not about telling a story. It’s about feeling your way through one. The same curiosity that fuels the camera; texture, time, decay, balance is at play here, only louder, messier, and often involving more cleaning up afterwards.
There are echoes of the outside world in these surfaces: rusted fences, worn-down floors, rain-stained walls.
Where control meets chaos (and loses)
These works are usually made over one or two sessions, guided more by instinct than plan.
Colour is often bold; reds, yellows and blues balanced with black, white, and muted greys. The focus stays on gesture, energy, and texture.
They don’t aim to say anything specific, but they hold a sense of rhythm and tension - something felt rather than defined.
Textura sits somewhere between impulse and intention. Messy, meditative, occasionally frustrating but always honest.
A kind of visual thinking, layered in paint.
