Ode To Keith

I begin my work by putting some paint on my support and playing around with it, seeing what it does, and discovering what the painting wants to be about. In a way my paintings become themselves.

My current work is materials based. The consistency of paint, the preparedness of the ground, is as important as any ideas I have. I work from "automatic" drawings or without any preconceived notions at all. Paint becomes things. I spend a lot of studio time working and reworking the colours and any pattern I may be focusing on, and then some notion will work its way into the painting. Some art historical reference or maybe an image inspired by the song I'm listening to will make itself known and jump into the painting.