Liam’s practice travels through both drawing and painting, addressing the intersection between nature and the psyche. Utilising the fluid and diverse properties of both these media, Liam explores the line between what is imagined and what is real in terms of the thoughts and feelings we have about ourselves and others. This line of inquiry seeks to question how one evaluates themself compared against others' perceptions. This is questioned through the incorporation of both real and imagined aesthetics; investigating how memories, situations, and relationships with others can be shown, and to what levels of differing ‘reality’ can be ultimately depicted.
Using the home as the metaphor to explore this concept, Liam builds continuing narratives of relationships built through the depiction of fictional characters to explore ideas of mental health and identity. He channels this view within a home environment, which acts as a catalyst allowing him to evaluate the differing spaces where we learn to grow and operate as humans. It’s a place where our identity, character and value systems are built. Operating from this standpoint, his work is inspired by the encounters that he both experienced and witnessed. Then using these happenings to represent the adversity and struggle as a means to reflect upon how we’re inherently moulded as entities within this world. What we step into, internalise, hang on to and perceive, are the approaches he considers to inquire into this journey.
Portraits, patterns, home structures, vases, plants and toy animals, are the language Liam uses to enquire about this relationship. The decorative elements captured within the work are the means to shape the viewer's attention onto the path that reveals the patterns of behaviour we all find ourselves in daily. Patterns depicted separately and at other times trapped and merged with other designs, sets the stage to discuss the potential behaviour of repeated habits that we may find ourselves confined within. This is drawn through the wallpaper, flooring and accessories that surround the characters. Each surface offers Liam the means to discuss the intricacies of the web of cycles that we can find ourselves in; get stuck in. Taking an expanded focus into sociological and psychological routes, Liam incorporates examples of visual culture that we may find within our own homes, as a means to address different facets and sides of our behavior and evaluate what they each symbolically, but also collectively, represent. His continued focus throughout is the hope of reaching what it means to be ourselves, discussing how we learn and grow as humans, and what teachings we decide to pass on.