ARTIST'S STATEMENT

I work by suggestion rather than a clear statement. It's important that my work maintains its mystery, that it does not contain an answer. I avoid being didactic.

A conflict constitutes an integral part of my work. This tension between the opposites releases my creativity; the tight fine line work contra posed with the spilling characteristic. Drawing becomes the tracing of an activity, mapping and recording of an existence. Spilling gives importance to gesture, manifests a sense of release.

In my abstract works I imagine an internal body/mind landscape. I investigate the ways in which the visual language of the body can be formalised and minimalised in painting and drawing. I allude to bodily functions and systems and to biology in general. I try to evoke a sense of the transgressive, compulsive and irrational, as much as possible in an abstract art form.

The ideas underpinning the work are Sublime versus Abject, a sense of the poetic and lyrical.

I work with a broad range of materials on canvas, as well as on paper. I commonly use pens and pencils also varnishes, moulding compounds, acrylics and silicons - often combined into a single, mixed media work.

I often use the imagery of a deep sea landscape as a metaphor for the shoreless oceans of our minds.