SONOFAFOX

ARTIST STATEMENT
My practice has evolved through many forms, figurative work, movement-based photography, collage, and now abstraction, but colour has always been at the centre. I'm drawn to the emotional charge that colour can carry, and to how small shifts in tone, density, or brightness can change an image's atmosphere. Growing up around commercial print shaped this instinct early; I became attuned to how inks interact with paper, how transparency affects mood, and how colour can communicate what words can't.
Over time, my work moved away from depicting the figure and toward distilling the feeling within it. Photography led me into abstraction, and abstraction led me into the modular structures I use today. These repeated forms give me a framework for exploring variation, how changes in hue, orientation, or transparency alter a piece's emotional tone. CMYK screen printing and bitmap layers allow me to push these shifts further, revealing blends, fractures and tonal shifts that can't be achieved digitally. Neon pigments have become an essential part of my palette, adding a distinct vibrancy that anchors the work.
Unpredictability plays a meaningful role in my process. Unexpected blends, misregistrations, or surface changes often reveal moments that feel more honest than anything I could plan. I follow those moments closely; they are where the work begins to feel alive.
What connects everything I make, past and present, is the desire to create images that draw someone in emotionally, before they try to interpret them. My work is grounded in movement, variation and sensory experience, always returning to colour as a direct, immediate way of creating connection.