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Welcome to my web site!
There are new paintings here together with a brief visual history of images over the past few years to give you some idea of the range of my source material.
Experience is of paramount importance in my work and I need to be physically involved in that initial source. By being involved in this way with the things that inspire me, the paintings become equivalents for the experiences through their marks and layers of paint.
I am drawn to the patina, traces and remains of my subject matter - how age reveals history. So I layer, distress and repaint the images until I have dug out the content I am looking for. I often break up the imagery into different spatial areas to suggest the way in which we get to know a place - gathering bits of information to build the whole picture.
A piece of work is finished when it appears aged rather than new - when I recognise it for the first time .....
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