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My recent paintings bring to mind places and events, recollections of walks, hillsides and buildings, shadows cast by trees and clouds, intense moments of seeing or remembering. The scattered debris of landscapes walked through or flown over is overlain with forms and signs that suggest tracks, contours, movements of birds and light, and the intricate dance of human history and prehistory inscribed into the landscape. A layering of experience in time and space is suggested. Drawing and painting as records of awareness, insight and contemplation - picturing mind.
The pictorial content of each work unfolds according to an unpredictable process that combines intuitive associations, connections and ideas with carefully observed fragments of the visible world. Textual elements usually arise as the work develops and are either incorporated into the main pictorial field, or are located at the edge of the work as a reflective narrative. The accumulative, stratified nature of the work is analogous to natural processes of growth and decay in biological and geological spheres. |
