“My latest abstractions are about places. I start with a memory (often of the Hawkesbury River – a place I explored as a child) and the painting evolves. I paint colour fields that are inhabited with spontaneous gestures, these marks are highly personal but I also appropriate visual ideas gleaned from the graffitied walls of the inner city and construction sites of the suburbs.”

“I am also drawn to the emotive qualities of Sydney’s waterways – but there is always the hum of the city in the background. The paintings connect me psychologically to nature, the emotions and dialogue are intuitive and convey a sense of belonging.”

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“In this series I have returned to painting mostly in oils. The paintings completed over the past year return often to the theme of water, with oils I have immersed myself in the lusciousness of oil paint.”
“I keep overpainting until I get something with emotional energy, oils offer that intensity of pigment and energy that I’m trying to convey.”