My approach to painting has always been fluid. Painting and collage has been my chosen materials in equal measure. Thru the years I have constantly shifted my style of working from representational to abstraction. My influences have been many from Stanley Spencer to British pop art, Frida Kahlo, Arshile Gorky.
Outsider art has also influenced my approach to work; I found in it a raw honesty that I find inspiring.
In 2022 I began experimenting with total abstraction, a bold move for me but one that I needed to do as I needed more freedom, more room for intuition. I am not fully aware of the subject until the work is finished and reflected upon.
Most of the time I seem to have to go through the motions of painting and paint what I don't want. This process enables me to find out what it is that I actually want, layer upon layer, building up the surface by adding and subtracting as I go.
Most recently I have returned to a more representational way of working, doing more drawing and figurative work.