Works

Old Story

Old Story was created in 2015. Sam wanted to make a work whose sheer dimensions send the viewer on a journey through time — a surface so large it almost overwhelms.

Happiness

The series is named against itself: works made by subtraction, and called Happiness all the same.

Happiness is the central running series, begun in 2016 and continuing in the studio today. The works are mostly mixed media on canvas. The title is not ironic. It is a claim about what is left when subtraction has done its work.

City

The pressure of memory becomes cartographic. A dense band of fragments traverses a quiet ground.

City is a smaller body of work in which a place, remembered firmly enough to leave a trace and never named, registers itself across the surface as a band of broken shards over a stilled ground. The works are tightly composed and explicitly horizontal.

Behind the Fence

A wall traverses the lower field. Behind it, color rises in the form of folded triangles.

Behind the Fence is a brief and concentrated series in which the metaphor of confinement and what it cannot contain becomes almost diagrammatic. The wall is plain, the triangles behind it are bright, and the relationship between them is the whole subject.

Visit from Another Planet

Geometric works on a dark ground. Triangles that form into bodies.

The series was made between 2014 and 2020. Coloured and outlined triangles layer on a dark ground into crystalline forms, dense at the centre and reaching outward in fine lines.

Revelation

Works that stand apart from the named series. The title is left open.

Several works each year are left untitled. They share the methods of the named series but not their themes, and they are left without a title where a title would only get in the way.