My paintings derive mainly from landscapes of my environment. This landscape may not be the ‘real’ subject of my painting. The purpose as I see it, is the identification of perception. My emotional response to the environment is important, but I endeavor to understand both why and what I am responding to.
Drawing is an analytical process by which I begin to identify specific relationships. Painting is a process by which I attempt to enlarge my experience of those relationships once a degree of clarification is identified through drawing, work evolves via many reforming of relationships towards a recreated visual equivalent in coherent visual language terms of perceived relationships.
A difficult objective to reach, but I endeavor to shed stylistic tricks and pictorial devices that are regurgitated ad-nausea by those, who with confidence reproduce preconceived formulas.
Braque stated that “Verisimilitude is visual deception” and that “One must not proceed from the object but advance towards the object, what matters is the path you follow to reach the object”.
This is a tortuous path, which I take on my own, including numerous re-tracings of steps out of the cul-de-sac of uncertainties.