Artist Note

I have been painting full time for over 3 decades and always seek a spiritual response in and to my work. I’ve always had a visual language and given it space and form from a young age of 14.

In the world of abstract paintings it’s diving deep into myself and encountering the unfamiliar subconscious. It’s an unplanned inward journey on every canvas.This process is the choosing of shades and forms and working them into layers.

My inspiration comes from artists like William de Kooning and Zao Wou Ki. Most of the works I paint are by candlelight at night. This process invokes and creates deep moods and thoughts which transfer into shapes and forms. The shadows cast by the flicker of candle flames affects the light on my canvas and how I approach my choices of a multi-colour palette, especially gold and shading – a play of light and shadows with colour. I paint on the floor and work around the four sides of the canvas at once. Everyday is documented on my canvases much like a daily diary of what’s on in my mind. 

This bold, busy and bright body of work is a mix of anxiety & excitement which is my nature. My paintings grow into and out of one another like an ecosystem here in my studio.

The fascination is turning liquid soft paint (through my mind’s eye, hand and fingers) into solid dry paint, an irreversible process of acrylic on canvas, marks left forever beyond my lifetime, almost letting me feel immortality.

I like to expose the actual infliction and marks to the actual painting.That I hope will connect my energy and mood to the viewer. 

I’m always interested in busy and bold forms and compositions which overwhelm and inspire others in my maximalist style of work on canvas.

I never have preconceived ideas of how my painting is going to look.

I go with the flow and let my painting lead me. I completely surrender to the realm of forms for my conscious and subconscious states at night expressing my anxiety and excitement. This in itself is an art of spiritual meditation and exercise. My ultimate objective is to evoke a deep response from the viewer’s eyes and heart and for a fraction of time me and my viewer have become one through my work.