One of the most difficult things for me is to put into words what I do as a visual artist …
The ideas behind my paintings come from visual prompts like photographs, images from magazines or memories of an observation I’ve made on a walk, sitting in a café, watching T.V. I’m a squirrel of mental images, they’re stored away, and quite often for months/years.
The surface of the canvas is my starting point, I gradually build up layers of colours, texture and introduce a person, the story starts, objects, people and animals come and go; sometimes return under a different guise, these stories gradually build like pages in a book but they are visual layers. Each painting is a different story. Sometimes I work on a series of images from one concept and others are just a series of my rambled thoughts. I love the process of painting; it’s an incredibly seductive medium, having become allergic to oil paint several years ago, I moved to using acrylic paints & mediums, its enhanced the scope to explore a vision quickly and change if needs be, therefore creating the layers of my stories.
