My work is always influenced by landscape and nature, emotion and experience.
I work quite intuitively, using paint in a loose way, adding more intense shapes and line, building layers to create depth and interesting marks with other media.
So there is also a focus on the actual action of painting, the marks made, responding to sounds or music, remembered textures and movement. For me, the process is as important as the initial inspiration. I begin with the idea or memory but it is a journey in terms of how the painting evolves, layers added or covered, other marks revealed again or worked into to capture the feeling I want to convey.
It becomes about creating an impression, making a painting I feel has depth, balance, and quietness, something that draws a viewer in, and invites their personal involvement.
