LUAP’s work considers how experience changes the meanings we attach to images, objects and places. His Paintings begin with his own Photographs, which are reworked through colour, pattern and abstraction. Precise passages meet gestural marks, allowing the image to move between what was witnessed and what is remembered.
The Pink Bear, drawn from a family Photograph encountered again during therapy, has become an alter ego and a protective mask. Conspicuous yet concealed, the figure enters landscapes and unfamiliar situations where reassurance may sit alongside unease, and the search for connection exposes vulnerability.
The passage of time is present in both subject and surface. Wallpaper patterns from his childhood home enter later landscapes; forms are repeated, worn down and remade. Across the practice, LUAP returns to familiar images not to preserve them, but to see what they might become.
