In my abstract paintings I explored the act of painting as a means to explore my fascination for geology and ecology. The part about geology that fascinates me is the unseen and hidden quality, a hidden process or system which exists underneath our feet. For painting I took a conceptual angle in which I treated paint as a newfound and raw material and asked myself, how do ecological and geological processes translate to painting? Without trying to paint geology as one traditionally would I attempted to simulate with paint the processes that would have to take place for geological structures to be formed. From this conceptual angle, paint became a raw material that can be formed, shaped and adjusted through any means. Experimentation was key and I added different materials to simulate a wide range of processes that indirectly correlate with geology and ecology. I was studying and modifying paint as though one is studying geological and ecological evolution in a small and contained research centre.