My paintings are a kind of dance between different tempos. Slow layering of colour and fast mark making. I am looking for a solution, that is always shifting but at the same time I am one step behind. Ready to draw a conclusion too quickly. The point becomes a challenge to let that solution go, and the process involves finding a place within myself when I can let that happen, to let the painting beat myself at my own game and become something I didn’t see coming. Colour is a very important part of what I do, and I try to use it to extend this notion that there is something to be solved. I think of lines as being part of another layer of colour that has expanded and broken up, taking themselves through one layer to the next to make an image that condenses everything into a moment of recognition before a sense of grammar kicks in.
Simple elements. Colour, texture......these things are so closely related.....change the texture of a surface you change the colour. Form and space, scale .....the difference between size and scale. A crucial difference.
Line and surface. One turns into the other, surfaces being made up of many lines....lines converging to make surfaces. These are the things that occupy me as a painter. Meaning can come and go. mostly its about presence, resonance, contemplation. sensuality........