Bathers

The sixteen paintings that comprise the Bathers series mark a shift towards the human figure within my practice and engage more directly with our relationship to the sea as a site of leisure, contemplation, vulnerability, and transition. Based on distant observations of people standing and waiting on a concrete diving platform off the coast of Rhodes, the works explore colour, focus, posture, and movement. The bathers appear suspended against the sky, hovering just above the horizon line, poised between stillness and imminent action. By presenting these figures in this state of anticipation, I hope to cultivate a productive ambiguity that invites viewers to reflect on their own experience of looking and the uncertainties inherent in perception.