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I first found my way into painting as a teen through sign writing, a practice that required patience, control, and attention to detail. For many years, I resisted this as an artistic approach for how I apply paint to the canvas, thinking it wasn’t “painterly” enough. Over time, I’ve come to embrace it as my instinctive method, a style that now shapes how I layer pattern, texture, and line.

I have developed a visual language that engages with pattern, surface, and shadow, drawing on the Pattern & Decoration Movement, a feminist approach that celebrates women as artists and domestic creative practices. My work also reflects the matrilineal craft traditions of my own family and honours the broader history of unrecognised creative labour by women.

Techniques such as sgraffito - a reductive process of scratching back through layers of paint - along with the use of glitter and gold, have become signature elements in my work. Sgraffito reveals what lies beneath, acknowledging both the physical layering of paint and the layered histories embedded in pattern and craft.

Through my paintings, I explore the intersection of identity and design - returning to my first love of making while situating it within broader conversations about pattern, memory, and feminist art.

- Tracey-Lea Morgan