Things That Make You Feel Good

“I think a lot about light and colour. About a certain kind of stimulation and surprise that the process of painting can offer when it is not overly controlled. About the possibility of experiencing something bright, bringing a little order to something overly chaotic, retaining movement and chance, and holding it together within my own visual language. The content of the works, or their source material, is also something that has made me feel good simply through seeing it and has inspired me to paint. Not saying too much, not saying too little, retaining a certain sense of incompleteness and absurdity – in this way, the act of painting perhaps becomes more important than what is depicted. It is a kind of desire to step back from reality, while still retaining reality, because everything is grounded in it. A kind of turning away from the definite, allowing oneself to embrace the indefinite, and then returning to the definite and to the interplay between the two”- RB, 2026