陈列您的艺术作品给每天无数的访客观看

Abstraction in my art is a cognitive restating of a process that the mind carries out as part of visual processing.
Painting in the abstract allows me to capture non tangibles that I feel I can not be expressed verbaly or possibly by any other media. The sliver of emotion tied to a past memory of something trivial. The beauty of sometthing that is barely noticeable, the strange appeal of the lopsided or awkward

When I paint, I try to capture the beauty I find in the mundane the odd or the simple . For example the slight shift of tone betweeen two surfaces at the corner. a faded colour, a repeated pattern.
They are memories of other events, I guess the ones that never make it into a biographies, the ones that we forget or that blur into one composite memory.

Repetition and pattern in my work become analogous for many i.e. times, spaces, objects, memories. I think we seek in all aspects of observing, to see pattern, then deviation and find reason, cause or opportunity from that deviation.

Surfaces are an obsession with me , I'm fascinated with damage and dirt and oxidisation and with the microscopic topography of the apparently flat surfaces that reveals detail on careful observation but casually glanced at, is faultless

The mind performs a function in our visual perception called 'filling in' where detail seen once is applied perceptively over a correlating area or where the unseen, but likely visual components that are needed to complete a picture are assumed.(conceptual/perceptual completion.

Visual perception is a form of abstraction because it synthesises meaning and order from an illogical visual truth.

The paintings are painted in oil on a gelatine based chalk gesso panels

Past Percieved

2006
Oil on Gesso Panel
90cms x 60cms

Space in a different Shape 2

2005
Oil on Gesso Panel
17.8cm x 17.8cm