Welcome
I am interested in creating space and movement through the use of colour and shapes. Sometimes I start purely from marks and washes of colour as I search for a paintscape that allows colour to find an identity and structure. Often the space becomes ambiguous as I challenge my ideas of paint-created space. Composition is another focus; how to create a composition that holds the meanings of the colours, and at the same time is the colour.
In the search for the 'right' composition, I use colour as marks, colour as lines, I draw with colour, and use colour as forms.
It is important that the paintings become a self-contained world, and need no reference to the external world, though some paintings (particularly the watercolours made in situ) have more landscape references than others. One of my ongoing themes is my 'Inscapes,' which allow me the freedom to explore my ideas, but I have added some more landscape/figure based work to this website, to give an over-view of my body of work. Working from nature has allowed me to improvise in my Inscapes.
I tend to work in series and my starting points are often landscapes, cityscapes, and the female form. But just as often I will start from a word, phrase, or sequence of colours.
"Like the picture surface, colour has an inherent life of its own. A picture comes into existence on the basis of the interplay of this dual life. In the act of predominance and assimilation, colours love or hate each other, thereby helping to make the creative intention of the artist possible."
(Hans Hofmann)
In the search for the 'right' composition, I use colour as marks, colour as lines, I draw with colour, and use colour as forms.
It is important that the paintings become a self-contained world, and need no reference to the external world, though some paintings (particularly the watercolours made in situ) have more landscape references than others. One of my ongoing themes is my 'Inscapes,' which allow me the freedom to explore my ideas, but I have added some more landscape/figure based work to this website, to give an over-view of my body of work. Working from nature has allowed me to improvise in my Inscapes.
I tend to work in series and my starting points are often landscapes, cityscapes, and the female form. But just as often I will start from a word, phrase, or sequence of colours.
"Like the picture surface, colour has an inherent life of its own. A picture comes into existence on the basis of the interplay of this dual life. In the act of predominance and assimilation, colours love or hate each other, thereby helping to make the creative intention of the artist possible."
(Hans Hofmann)