My paintings are the result of largely unconscious processes. That is to say that I don't begin with an idea or image in mind, nor do I have something I wish to 'express'. A lot of my work takes the form of exploration and play. Eventually this activity coalesces into something that seems inevitable, and although I was there at every step, it feels like something, or somewhere, else was 'directing'.
'Picket' (for me, possibly alone) is an amalgam of mainly childhood images - a family stool, a colourful 'USS Enterprise' control panel, one of those little 'boomerangs' woven from nine lollipop sticks and, of course, a picket fence. The colours evoke nature but remain quintessentially synthetic. I enjoy the fact that paintings can contain a myriad of possibilities, images and associations. Also, why does it feel that the colour is being held within, or behind, the green strips, when it is resolutely not?
'Sieve' by contrast does contain the spheres behind it, as well as the 'gaseous' atmosphere they sit within. There's also something of a 1970's deckchair about the painting…