Vivid memories, anger and disturbing emotions characterise my work resulting from environmental destruction and a human existence plagued by inequality, globalisation, consumerism, war and intolerance.
Colour and texture convey my themes and aid composition and context. Works on steel use alchemy to cause erosion, thus reflecting the earth’s destruction, yet, paradoxically, producing beautiful, aleatonic* patterns.
Paintings on canvass are abstractions inspired by environments, both human and natural, that reek of negligence and decay.
My influences include Keifer, Alys and Ghenie for their political comment, Kandinsky for his journey to abstraction and Maisel for his work in which he “finds beauty in the devastated environment.” Burtynsky’s amazing photos of our planet’s destruction are almost unreal and a major inspiration.
My aim is to provoke viewers by challenging their perceptions and reality and to promote change.
My values are founded on a forty year business career, a parallel political one and travel to over sixty countries which led me to begin studying art and painting on retiring.
*A mathematical term for random/chance.
