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Ed (b. 1994) is a painter currently based in Cornwall.

My intent as an image maker is to illuminate the threads that collectively bind us together as humans, the kaleidoscopic stars and the future that’s in-front of us all. I often think of painting as holding up a torch in a dark cave, where sustained attention is the water that throws up salt.

Painting reveals its truth not through certainty but through possibility. The revelations that occur when feeling becomes form. My work is about listening to what a painting asks for. The power of an image is in the collective memory it can stir up and my lens is the internal focus required to successfully synthesise the universal potency of feeling. There is a warm intimacy that sits at the root of all images and I am always working towards beyond language.

The roar of an idea is fail-able and can slip away as quickly as it’s tilled up from the ground. I work from a gathering of drawings from observation in the pursuit of feeling. Trying and failing to describe complex emotions is the canary in the coal mine which allows the painting to be thinking out loud. Painting the essence of the drawing is always what I’m trying to do. It’s the most direct way that leads to the synthesis of abstract thought. It’s this anchor that allows you to paint from the soul. To fingerprint and evidence being human. To look to the future, a yearning to go home again. Painting is a question-marking and I resist the idea that meaning lives at the end.