I use paint and digital media to create narrative abstractions. I combine structure with feeling, finding meaning that exists in the space between the eye and the canvas. The indeterminate nature of abstraction defines the uncertainty of the present moment.

How we see is not timeless. It changes with technology, science, and culture. Our current digital age has ushered in a fast-reacting visual mode, altering our capacity for attention. I create digital collages from daily news items overlaid with abstract form and patterns. This allows me to embody a screen-based reality.

Alternatively, painting is a slow investigation into patterns that define everyday experience. Painting obliterates any sense of time or space. It requires unhurried, meditative attention. A painting's surface is built incrementally. Forms overlap, appear, disappear, transform, vibrate, or sit in stillness, but nothing remains fixed. All is in flux.

I use geometry as a way to honour complexity. I’ve used the grid in my work to ground it in the present. The grid has become part of our interconnected world. It is our current technology of perception. My painted grids hover somewhere between the painting and the viewer, in the infinite space of experience.

- Elizabeth Barnes