As a painter I live with many questions; why do I feel driven to engage in this ‘timeless dialogue’, this age-old preoccupation with colour and feeling? I create paintings which reflect and inform my experience of living. When I paint, I dip into the essential, streaming creativity of the human spirit. I feel intensely alive, and work with all my interest thrown forwards into the future, I’m aware, listening out, and looking out for the magic. I want to surprise myself and reach new conclusions, creating images which engage and warm the inner world of the viewer.

Keats spoke of the value of ‘negative capability’ and my aim is to develop this into a capacity as I work. Maintaining an ambivalent, questioning approach to outer and inner phenomena whilst engaged in the act of painting, leads me through a surprising process of discovery and also to surprising results. I strive to reach beyond my subjective imagination to discover transformations, new solutions and colour atmospheres.

Working with many media, I explore transparent luminosity, textures, multiple layers of colours and glazes. I also work consciously with the substance of the paint itself and the tensions within its makeup. I aim to produce work with a variety of colour conversations, movements and dynamics that will resonate with others and enliven the environment in which they are seen.

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