There’s a particular moment of excitement, and sometimes trepidation, as I stand in front of my canvas, brush loaded and poised for that first mark. It might be in my studio, on a beach or up in the hills, that frisson is always there and manifests itself in the hover – the hanging over the canvas, bobbing the brush tip up and down like a snooker player lining up a shot – then the dart and sweep of the first marks.
I endeavour to represent a sense of people and place through landscape, portrait and abstract drawing and painting, and from time to time sculpture. I use visual starting points, mathematical patterns, often poetry, to convey a more philosophical or spiritual sense in the way people and society interact with each other and the place.