Earthlight (167 x 150 cm) acrylic and oil on linen

I am fascinated by the interplay between sight and touch. My paintings are as much concerned with physicality of surface as with image. Through changes of light, as well as through movement of the viewer, the images constantly shift, metamorphose, entice and elude. From the trace of a touch, shapes are discovered, magnified, and taken from their original context. Paint is dropped onto stretched linen, forming a matrix of globules, like rain on a window pane. The colour of the paint may be the colour of shadows, intense and quiet, and cool on warm linen. Like the elusive and ghostly cells which float in the field of vision between the eyes and what we see, the shapes are intangible and playful, never settling.