The word Garden, the thought of a Garden or even being in one can vary. Literally and metaphorically, this state is often filled with peace and tranquility, flowers and colours, sunshine and shadows.  

This mental oasis can quickly transform to an overgrown patch of weeds, a frazzled headspace or a chore. A garden is seasonal and requires frequent upkeep, quite like creativity. A Garden State is used as a metaphor to try and make sense of the artist's headspace. It can be a peaceful place or an ever-growing mess.

From a young age, Artist Liam Haley has always strived to create. Throughout this upbringing he has developed a relationship and connection to the land and its abundance - all the shapes and colours an artist could need. 

A Garden State - The Mind Empties Its Images, explores a constant underlying inspiration drawn from nature. Specifically in the form of natural colours, plants, light and shadow. These quotidian resources are transformed into textured and tactile, abstract oil paintings with distorted layers of brushstrokes. 

The Artist's psyche elicits colour, energy and texture. Feelings without words, restored through movements of the body in a performance of intuitive mark making. Recurring abstract shapes resemble motifs of plants and falling leaves, colours merge and melt into a harmonious familiarity. A mutuality between artist and artwork renders a polychromatic experience of manipulated spaces, and this gestural application of oil paint brings the artwork to life.