Currently my motivation in art making has formed itself through an intuitive approach to investigation. A sequence of paintings or drawings may start from a process similar to a composer musing over a few notes pitched around the key board. This approach often allows ideas and discoveries to infiltrate and permeate where a more linear approach would not.
Both my photographic and painted imagery are responses to my immediate environment and surroundings. I am interested in the illusive qualities of a moment that disappears; the fast movement of the brush, a torn edge or light hitting a metallic surface for an instant. I want to give the viewer the time to look and look again at an experience that in reality has gone in a flash. I aim to capture the transient quality of paint, ink and light through movement, gesture and a camera lens. Likewise, as with music where a passage of time and expressive movement is traced in sound, the speed and nuances of a gesture can be recorded in pigment and marks.
These captured moments often provide me with a palette for further compositions and juxtapositions. I revisit the initial creation selecting and simplifying, allowing the viewer to recognise the simple beauty of pattern and form in a similar manner to when it is observed in nature.