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I paint to realise and rationalise curiosity, confusion and what lies deep inside my subconscious. As a painter I find myself constantly questioning my reasons for producing what appears on the painting surface. I find this hard, but without this questioning process there would be no driving force to explore deeper possibilities. My initial first move in starting a work is to lay down a foundation to allow me to understand what the work could potentially explore. This could be a simple flat ground or a random geometric shape. Something needs to exist in order to trigger the investigation that is the making of the painting. As an artist I always find myself questioning the idea of abstraction and where it lies within my practice, I find my self expressing abstraction through the way I paint but I tend not to believe in its presence in the work. I wouldn’t like to be pigeon-holed as an abstract painter because this narrows the scope of options in the work. Within my work curious semi-familiar forms and strange enclosed worlds are born through moving paint around the surface in an investigative manor. Mysterious pictorial habitats start to exist and the more I explore the painting through process and experimenting with paint the more these ... [ Read all ]