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Emerging
I have always been fascinated by the way that paint can seem not simply to depict light but actually create it, so that the painting itself becomes a light source, seeming to emit its own rays. Light, whether concealed or pouring freely into an imagined landscape, has always been a vital element of my art.
When I look back at my body of work, I see a line of organic development that is clear only in retrospect. For me, the paintings reflect phases in my own personal journey of which at the time, perhaps, I was scarcely aware. This is one of the great thrills of art, that the unseen can be called forth and become part of our conscious existence.
My recent work explores this idea, the relation between what appears on the surface and is seen and known, and what lies beneath and is unseen – but perhaps intuitively known. In literal terms, the deep places of this world – caverns, the seabed, the floor of a tropical rainforest – these places are alien to our daily human life and yet somehow deeply familiar, almost as if at some level we remember our primeval origins.
Each picture is an adventure for me as mysterious landscapes emerge from the play of the colours on paper. I want this also for my audience, not to dictate to them but for them to keep searching within the canvas uncovering their own secrets. I would like to think that my work could function as a kind of conduit to the subconscious and that, in presenting my own reality, I am simultaneously creating a space in which people can uncover their own.
