1 . 140525 // taplow
The taplow series is a body of paintings developed during a six-week residency at Turps Banana. The residency itself was located in a unit at Taplow House—a brutalist residential tower block and one of the final remaining structures of the original Aylesbury Estate.
Emerging from observations of the building’s architectural language, the Taplow series investigates the interplay between light, materiality, and form. Within each composition, angular geometric elements converge, interact, and subtly shift on the surface, echoing the spatial tension and rhythm inherent to the surrounding urban fabric.
Brushstrokes remain intentionally exposed, revealing the construction of the painting itself. Imperfection becomes a feature rather than a flaw, echoing the weathered textures and lived-in nature of the building’s surfaces.
The colour palette draws from specific architectural features of the estate - distilling and translating them into a visual vocabulary that oscillates between abstraction and structural familiarity. Executed in acrylic and clear gesso on aluminium and MDF panels, the work’s materiality furthers the correspondence with its source, reflecting both the solidity and fragility embedded in the architecture it responds to.
aluminium, acrylic paint
30X30CM
aluminium, acrylic paint
30X30 CM
aluminium, acrylic paint
30X30 CM
installation view
turps residency 03
acrylic paint, spray paint ,gloss varnish, MDF panel
30X30CM (each)
installation view
turps residency 03