Figurative Dreamscapes     I     2017-2020

 

Dreams formed the starting point of my artistic journey into memory, symbolism and the unconscious. Between 2017 and 2020, I kept dream journals and worked with dream analysis, recording increasingly vivid images that I then translated into paintings as faithfully as possible. Rather than organising them into rational narratives, I allowed their unfamiliar figures, spaces and relationships to retain the ambiguity with which they appeared.

At this stage, my focus was the personal unconscious and the visual language through which it communicates. Recurring figures, transformations and symbolic structures gradually emerged, revealing connections that could not have been created through conscious intention alone. Painting became a way of preserving these fleeting images and entering into a dialogue with the unknown parts of the self.

Figurative Dreamscapes established the foundations of my later practice: an openness to intuition, unstable meanings and imagery that exists between recognition and mystery. The discoveries made through these works subsequently led me beyond the personal dream towards ancient symbolism, the collective unconscious and the wider visual languages explored in the phases that followed.