Paintings

I paint because it feels good to slowly, very slowly, get to know, to build up a deeper feeling and understanding, of the paints, the papers, the spatulas, the brushes - so that I slowly, very slowly, gain more influence over what the end-results, the finished paintings, look like.

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​And because of the excitement and tension of also, within that context and constraint, somehow deciding when the paintings are finished, when I actually like – or don't think I can improve the aesthetic impact – the works.

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While the paintings are abstract, I suspect that the pleasure I find in noticing patterns around us - which I sometimes photograph - informs my painting aesthetic.