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India Mark

There’s so much happening in your paintings, but at the same time your style is very minimal – the colours are washed out, the lines simple and clean. Is that a conscious choice, does it come from somewhere?

Yes totally. I’m aware that my work is pretty, sort of, minimalist. The process of painting for me is like a process of elimination. Compositionally I prefer my artworks to be quite sparse. I always end up painting over objects to make way for more open space.

Is there a significance to your objects?

They started out being significant;

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