Looking at my work, John Charles Clark remembers a text he wrote in 1994: ‘Once again the primeval spirit
throws shadows onto the
cavernous walls of our skulls,
but now there is a new story to be
read into them.’
I gratefully borrow his quote. In my paintings of 2005 I used texture and shapes that are evocative of cliffs and rocks, and the area around Gwithian and Godrevy has been of particular interest.
Often some other meaning transpires in the process of working.
The paintings I have shown in 2010 are the result of colour exercises.
Starting with the challenge to bring two colours each to their full potential, radiating in conversation with the other. In the process the panting will take over and I will find shapes and textures that are evocative of the ancient windswpt landscape of the Penwith Peninsula.
Printmaking – to me – is like painting with ink. It is a medium that conveys the rugged carved aspect of the landscape very well. I like to work in series where each print is unique. The phases of the moon are a prominent theme in my printmaking as well.
My drawing is about markmaking, more than about representing what is out there.
All my life – drawings and paintings based on the human figure turn into rock shapes.