My work has evolved from early art college figurative painting
through abstraction in the seventies and, from the late seventies,
back to the figurative.
Abstract/non
objective painting taught me much about space and
shape and the delicate balance between them. Hopefully my painting
still retains the stillness that comes from that balance.
I
combine ordinary people with ordinary and imaginary scapes to
create work which I hope makes the viewer think and dream.
For
me each work has specific and vague meanings which arise from
its conception and the process of its making.
The
title I give to each painting can help point the viewer in at
least one
direction but should not always be taken too literally.
I
consider myself to be a 'symbolist' in that the figures and objects
portrayed often have more than one significance.
Always
I hope that my work pleases the eye but also stimulates the mind.
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