I completed my very first oil painting in 1967 at the age of fourteen. I was hooked. Now, fifty one years later I'm still trying to get it right. I can't imagine how many cups of coffee that adds up to. You know, to be totally honest, I really don't love to paint. It's really hard work. It's a struggle just to go to my studio every day, but I eventually do and I get to work. Why? Because it's what I do, because I can and because I want to. I want to do it more than anything, and because of that, whatever I'm painting has to be worth it or else I'm wasting my time.
Capturing light, shadow, shape and colour is everything in my paintings. Most of my ideas derive from personal memories or observing the everyday objects immediately around us that we see but rarely notice or simply take for granted. I then
take those images and rearrange them by reducing their complexities and minimizing them to their simplest forms creating a
sense of order and comfort.
The French writer, Exupery wrote; "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more left to take away."
This is what I base my process on.
Capturing light, shadow, shape and colour is everything in my paintings. Most of my ideas derive from personal memories or observing the everyday objects immediately around us that we see but rarely notice or simply take for granted. I then
take those images and rearrange them by reducing their complexities and minimizing them to their simplest forms creating a
sense of order and comfort.
The French writer, Exupery wrote; "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more left to take away."
This is what I base my process on.