Disturbance

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 5ft x 4ft
Creation Date: 2024
Collection: Greyscale

Disturbance (2024) is a record of rupture — a visual response to the way energy shifts and disorients. Painted on a 60 x 48 inch canvas in layered acrylics, this piece from the Greyscale collection is both visceral and atmospheric. It doesn’t show an event; it embodies it.

The canvas is dominated by a vibrating field of reds, dark purples, and black, slashed with sudden gestures of white and ochre. Paint has been dragged, smeared, scraped — at times violently, at times with unexpected delicacy. Some areas crack and split, while others are glazed over like a wound healing beneath skin.

I created Disturbance while navigating a moment of emotional and external turbulence. This painting was not planned. It was pushed into being — each mark reacting to the last, each decision testing balance and break.

The work calls to mind the expressive chaos of Emil Nolde and the urgency of Joan Mitchell, though my palette remains grounded in a darker, internal register. Like those artists, I believe the body knows more than the mind when it comes to painting through emotion.

Disturbance doesn’t ask to be decoded. It asks to be felt — to be entered through its heat, its rhythm, its rawness.