| Through the 70’s and 80’s I made paintings that used figurative and abstract means to explore states of feeling and inner experience. Most of these works employed subtle nuances of tone and colour, sometimes on a large scale (up to 19 x 5 feet). These works are unreproduceable, hence the lack of examples in this archive). The work was included in major solo exhibitions at Southampton City Art Gallery, 1980 (The Archaeology of Feeling) and ASPEX Gallery, Portsmouth, 1985, and in A Sense of Place group exhibition at the Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, 1981. |
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Between 1989 and 1997 I produced a large number of paintings based on an intense contemplative analysis of groups of objects. Many of the paintings and the objects upon which they were based echoed the kinds of objects I’d used in earlier installations and performances (eg. bones, stones, twigs, feathers and potsherds). At the time I wrote the following note: Painting is a way of coming into knowledge, making sense, investigating and celebrating the “otherness” of the world — engaging with things outside the “self” — recognising the strangeness of the familiar. Some of these works were included in solo exhibitions at Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, 1993 and another, entitled The Archaeology of Seeing, at Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, 1994. Signature of All Things and The Blue Table are examples from this period. |
