About

Oscar's work follows loose, playful principles. 

'Development of an image usually occurs spontaneously, or through sponaneous and quick mark making.'

 'I intend to minimise the eroneous symptons of overthinking and correctiveness which often seep into any creative process.'

'Consequently working with collage enables my desire to embody eclectic imagery, mark-making and layering; be it with PVA and paper, or oil paint and fabric/cardboard. AIding what I like compositionally to also be an excuse to play.'

'The process of looking at and arranging paper and found material, to me, is very similar to the process of painting the shapes of a landscape or arranging brush marks, I find they are both playful but arranging or balancing acts.'

Oscar's practice involves creating drawings, collages and paintings. 

 Currently, Oscar aims to draw from speed and happenstance in his work, working on multiple paintings gradually building compositional correspondances toward a larger bodies of multiple singular paintings.

Once encountered, painterly limitations and frustrations are soothed through  constructing collages from found source material.

 'I enjoy juxtaposing images of life throughout different eras. Focusing on modern humanity through an obscure lens.  Often leaning toward the uncanny, but not so sublime.'

'There is a lot of fun to be found in the repetitiveness, the predictability of life when related alongside the intrinsically unexplainable, unknown and vast nature of our shared history.'

Painting in watercolours on the backs of postcards was initially a warm up tool and hobby whilst in the studio, but as with any surface or material comes versatility and and various pathways for experimentation. Quickly I have found myself searching for further ways to explore painting landscape.