Painting 2022

Paintings tend to draw upon my portable ‘Life Museum’, that container of teeming memories and associations.

In its various ‘galleries’ are memories of a Derbyshire childhood; the Oxfordshire clayfields and canals; the London heathland and hidden rivers. My interactions, both physical and psychological, with this ‘Museum’ coalesce as mark and volume in the tale of my paintings. I guess you might call what I do ‘expressionistic inscapes’ rather than landscapes.

Painting is about non-place as much as place; about fact and fiction. And, well… painting is mainly about dragging a full brush of pigmented paste across a surface and trusting in alchemical magic.