'My current paintings are constructed and dismantled frequently in the duration of the making and contain various component parts until a hierarchical order of form becomes apparent’.

Gradually, traces of an ‘action’ whether a brush mark or spatula scrape, a half lost mark made with a stick or dribble of turps on oil paint, fragmented shapes, a brush stroke or an underpainted colour emerge to juxtapose with new responses on the painted surface. These become important elements of the painting existence. For me, painting is a ‘live’ and fluid process of heightened and intense responses to the medium of paint.

I work on around 5 or so paintings at a time, these range in scale from the intimate 15 cm square canvas to large corporate scale of 2 metre long canvases. With time, the focus of each painting lies in the need to orchestrate these different elements, often through major changes in form, scale, depth of canvas, composition and colour into a definitive whole.

Drawings, colour paint experiments, natural or urban environments, diagrams, written notes and photographs, experimental collages may inform the work in its formative stages, I also explore works on paper and screen printing but essentially my work emerges from the physical process of ‘making’ paintings.

I am influenced by a broad range of painters from Joan Mitchell, Clem Crosby, Jules Olitski, Patrick Heron, John Hoyland, Clyde Hopkins, Pierre Soulages, Antoni Tapies, CoBrA artists and painters Gunther Forge, Oscar Murillo and Richard Aldrich to name a few.