My work is eclectic, varied in medium and style, a personal response to a multitude of ideas from a wide spectrum of influences. A limited formal grounding in the fine arts has enabled a freedom of development plus encouraged the necessity to learn a new set of practical techniques to realise these ideas in visual terms.
As a base or starting point, I constantly consider the interplay of colour, shape, line, tone and texture in the formation of my compositions. It is at times an analytical, slow, deliberate process and at others a natural development from the germ of an idea. The work therefore does not conform to any particular selected movement or style, but remains rooted in the ‘now’ mode; the immediate reaction to a thought bubbling to the surface sometimes jogged by a texture, a blank wall, a reaction to injustice, a scientific theory or just the challenge to express a reality in photo realistic terms. It is the slow and deliberate rendering of these visual ideas to their conclusion that really gives meaning to the struggle found in painting as a personal expression!