Flawed Beauty features old doors and windows, peeling paint and rotting wood in an exploration of the Japanese concept of wabi-sabi.

侘寂

Wabi-sabi represents a Japanese aesthetic centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection, recognising beauty in nature that is imperfect and impermanent, accepting the natural cycle of growth, decay and death. It celebrates cracks and crevices and all the other marks that time, weather and loving use leave behind.

These works are all inspired by actual physical places that I have been to that are then developed and adapted to create each painting.  Some may be purely literal translations of a specific place and time whilst others may involve elements combined from a number of sources to evoke a desired mood or atmosphere.