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Artist Statement

My practice explores the relationship between order, disruption, and adaptation within complex systems. Working through geometric abstraction, I create paintings that investigate how structures respond to pressure, uncertainty, and change.

I am interested in the idea that stability is rarely achieved through permanence or control. Instead, systems—whether social, environmental, technological, or personal—survive through continual adjustment. Grids, intersecting forms, and repeated geometric elements provide a framework for order, while layered surfaces, textured passages, and contrasting shapes introduce resistance, tension, and transformation. The resulting compositions exist in a state of negotiation, where balance emerges through interaction rather than fixed hierarchy.

My work is informed by Constructivist approaches to structure, alongside an interest in complexity, emergence, and the patterns that arise within seemingly unpredictable conditions. Through abstraction, I seek to create visual spaces that invite reflection on resilience, interconnection, and the ways competing forces coexist.

Underlying these investigations is a personal awareness of impermanence, transition, and the fragility of the systems that shape our lives. Rather than depicting specific events or narratives, my paintings offer a visual language through which ideas of adaptation and change can be explored.

Ultimately, I see painting as a process of enquiry—an opportunity to examine how order is formed, challenged, and continually reconfigured in response to an evolving world.

Tina Peacock - Studio

Moor Lane

Sturminster Marshall

Wimborne

BH21 4BD

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