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My work is about colour, balance and harmony. It is also about the
landscape: both as a compositional suggestion box, and as a stage where
human interventions modify the environment and its wildlife. It is the
collision between making work concerned with the external world, or work
that is just about itself, that keeps my brain buzzing. The ratio of one to
the other changes with each work, just as each work suggests the next.
For me, screenprinting and painting are directly about colour. I am
interested in the dynamic between planned intentions and spontaneous
reactivity in the building up of an image; the interface between the
deliberate, the impulsive and the accidental. There are always new things to
discover, and one easily forgets how a certain effect was achieved.
My starting point is direct drawing in the landscape, usually in notebooks,
but sometimes as one sustained piece of observation. At other times, it is
only colour and composition, more distantly distilled from the original
drawing experience. Representation puts an edge on experimenting with
process, making demands on the discipline to function on different levels.
Figurative subject matter forces other issues into the mix, so random marks
nudge up against perspective.
