Statement

Painting is my primary practice and my approach is intuitive.  For me, the act of painting is as much about drawing as it is about swathes of paint, as I search for both form and breathing space.   Using mainly oils, my rhythm involves building up an accumulation of lines and areas of colour, scraping off layers and working back in, until a direction evolves.

Since my work hovers between the abstract and figurative, an added gesture can take it to a different place.  There is often a kind of primordial narrative, even though I don’t know how it will eventually manifest, deriving from a long held interest in mythology.  At the same time, my painting sometimes contains elements of landscape, stemming from ‘walking drawings’.

I also make small sculptures using old canvases and recyclable materials.   These are fun and intriguing to create in parallel with my painting practice.  A number have evolved into a series of towers and sentinels, which are at once both mythological and inspired by man’s imprint on the land.