I enjoy exploring the way that paint can work as a medium, when it is allowed to flow, at different consistencies – one colour into another.
The surprise element that results from this open approach is a central part of the process, and turns the act of making each painting into a dialogue, a balance between freedom and control.
I make paintings which spring from ideas about the energy of earth, air, fire and water and the growth of plants and flowers.
I find that images of water are especially suited to my way of working.
The free flow of acrylic paint naturally depends on water itself - poured, splashed, tipped and washed across the canvas, messy, tactile, pools of colour creeping one into another.
The painting dries, leaving an image about water, enabled by water – which is for me, some kind of happy agreement.