My principal preoccupation as an artist is with abstract painting, which I continue to find a fertile and exciting form of expression.

I am interested in the intrinsic formal qualities and emotional logic of paint— the interaction and integration of surface, plane, line, edge, shape and colour and the dialogue between painting’s physical and visual properties. I like creating a tension between formal structure and spontaneous gesture, between the constructed and the intuitive.

My painting is a process of sustained improvisation—one thing leads to another. My work comes about as a result of a sensation, a gesture, an inkling, a partial concept, or whatever…and spontaneously and naturally expands from there; the way a seed germinates, the way a river collects itself from its headwaters and tributaries.

My current series of work is the On Some Faraway Beach Paintings. On Some Faraway Beach alludes to the edges and boundaries between the known and the unknown, the near and the far, the real and the imagined, the inside and the outside. It is a ‘place’ of questing and reflection. In all formal respects the paintings are rigorously abstract.

May 2016