Gift of Summer Days 13

The paintings are a thought process driven and reflective.
My process is organic, beginning the paintings with gestural brush marks, impulsive scrawling and graffiti. Layers are introduced in stages and the direction of the painting is informed and influenced by each previous mark and colour. They are suggestive in possibilities and provide some insight into the sensation experienced while creating the works.

Artist statement
I use the process of painting to document physical and psychological presence, investigating the communicative function of colour and form as a reaction.

The starting point of each painting is based on some form of narrative, which inevitably informs the course of painting. However, in the process of painting, it is not a question of making ever more references to the narrative, but a deliberate attempt to escape from it. Therefore the paintings may be observed for what they are rather than what they should mean

Work on canvas can be taken off the stretcher, rolled and shipped in a dent-resistant tube (This method is especially safe for oversized works, and provides lower shipping costs as well. Rolled works can be easily restretch by a local framer.) or on the stretcher, crated.