Abstraction allows Garrick’s way of working to continually develop and push forward creatively. Free of representational forms, she has found a painting process that can concentrate on expression and connection. Simple, repeated brushstrokes suggest the augmentation of a ritual or custom, a creative task that yields striking visual results.

Garrick achieves a remarkable sense of transformation in her works. The looseness of form allows us to feel what we actually perceive, free of implied meanings, and images, shapes, colors and marks often change and evolve in a viewers mind as her paintings are experienced over time.

She is inspired by language, by a desire to give visual form to feelings and primal instincts that existed before humans had even invented written communication. This creates a sense of timelessness and an atmosphere that allows for real, meaningful connection. To live with one of her paintings is to engage in an ongoing and rich relationship. Her brushstrokes and forms become reflections of your own feelings and sentiments, converging into images and thoughts before dispersing again. Garrick’s work is visually intriguing and mentally stimulating, and will inspire you to express ideas, find solutions and develop new ways of thinking, seeing and doing.

Charles Mingus, the famous jazz musician, once said that ‘Anyone can make the simple complicated; creativity is making the complicated simple’, and the talented, rich abstract paintings of Garrick encompass this philosophy perfectly. She has eliminated from her practice the confining artistic tradition of representation in order to focus of the purity of the act of creativity, and express the primal instincts, empathic ties and universal attributes that connect all humans.