​​

Places evoke emotion and places are my starting point. My paintings are a response to the changing colours and play of light I experience in daily life. I use abstraction to generalise particular visual experiences: fragmentation of light through trees, the isolation of views and colours through doors and windows,  illumination of the everyday world through positive and negative shapes. Captivated in this way by light, abstraction evolves in the pictorial space.

​

Photographs and drawings play a part, reducing the subject matter to a grid and transforming each square to a series of geometric shapes. I layer and re-arrange the picture surface over time, breaking down the picture plane, the painting becomes a number of paintings, geometric webs and structures each worked over the last in response to the complexity and colours of its predecessors. With each layer I work across the canvas and gradually as the colours harmonise and the rhythms evoke my initial feelings the painting begins to emerge. The geometry generates energy and movement, a development  fundamental to the evolution of my paintings. I begin to find the painting within the painting.