Haze & Explore: A Moment of Inner Hush

Some collections are about arrival.
This one is about slowing down.

Haze & Explore grew from a desire to create quiet spaces, not empty ones, but places where the noise softens and something steadier takes its place. These paintings aren’t about describing a landscape; they’re about holding a feeling. The kind of feeling that settles when you pause long enough to notice your breath again.

Layers That Settle

Many of the works are built through slow, overlapping layers of ink. Gentle washes move across the surface, shifting and settling in their own time. 

There’s something about this process that creates stillness. Not an absence of sound, but a kind of inner hush. A moment of silence within a busy world.

The paintings don’t ask to be read quickly. They reveal themselves slowly, layer by layer, much like the rhythms of nature itself.

Leaving Space

I often find myself drawn to creating spaces within my work, places for the eye to rest, to pause. In these pieces, areas of movement blend and overlap, but there is also room to breathe.

That balance matters to me. Too much activity can feel overwhelming; too much emptiness can feel disconnected. Somewhere in between is where calm lives. These paintings sit in that space, gentle, open, and quietly grounded.

Process Over Outcome

Sometimes creating is about the act itself: the movement of paint, the layering of colour, the moments of flow. During this collection, I focused on the process allowing the materials to guide the work rather than forcing an image to appear.

There’s a quietness that comes from that kind of making. A silence that isn’t imposed, but naturally found through repetition, movement, and attention.

In many ways, these works are a record of that time, of slowing down and listening to what happens when you let go.

Abstracting Nature

There’s something deeply freeing about abstracting nature. It allows space for interpretation, for memory, for feeling. My work is inspired by nature not in a literal sense, but in the way it makes me feel, calm, grounded, steady.

The colours, movements, and textures in this collection echo moments outdoors: walking through woods when the light shifts just right, the softness of air after rain, or that quiet pause when you finally sit down with your first cup of tea in the morning.

One piece, Green Haze, captures that feeling for me, fresh, calming, peaceful, with a hint of mystery. Like being held in a moment where nothing else is required of you.

A Place to Pause

Haze / Explore is an invitation to slow down. To rest your eyes. To sit with something that doesn’t rush you.

These paintings are not loud statements. They are gentle companions — works that hold space rather than fill it. Over time, they become familiar, offering moments of quiet presence within everyday life.

And sometimes, that’s exactly what we need.