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Observations of place fused with
an abstraction of surface..
The great outdoors, people, cities, landscapes and their interactions are my
inspiration – recording my wanderings in sketches and photos to create a record of
visited places that will then inform my studio paintings.
In my work I seek to capture a moment of impression, as when emerging from an
underground station into a busy unfamiliar sunlit street, heightened senses,
momentary bright light blindness, the confusion of information, noise and movement
– each painting seeks to create that initial hazy impression of place fused with precise
primary detail, a lamppost, tree, vehicle, a shop window, a rushing commuter.
It is my practice to make several paintings of the same subject with each one evolving
in a different way due to the concerted randomness of mark making, overpainting,
scraping back, repainting. Eventually my focus goes from the subject matter to the
surface of the painting, familiarity with the subject allowing me to make marks of
intuitive gesture to attain a visual interpretation of the familiar.
Battersea cranes, 100x120cm acrylic on deep canvas support
New York Windows, detail, oil and mixed media on canvas