Welcome

 I am an abstract painter and normally use acrylic paint on canvas but for smaller works on paper I employ watercolour and/or pastel. I like the versatility that acrylics allow, from thin staining directly into the canvas to thick impasto and the numerous ways in which paint can be applied – with sponge, brush, trowel, scraper, spray, roller, or with my hands.

I often work in series because I can concentrate on a theme and then go through a number of variations. In some series the paintings are devoid of shape; there are only intermingling layers of colour, painted wet into wet and wet over dry. The viewer's eye moves from side to side, then into depth and back to the surface again.

My paintings reflect my personality. Sometimes I want energy and excitement to be expressed in my pictures; at other times a quieter mood prevails. I am always open to new possibilities and I often start a painting on an  impulse and see what happens; the paintings seem to have a life of their own.

At the moment I am concerned with the expressive potential of marks and colour and how to link the two together. I find that abstract art has unlimited potential because every change in the process of painting creates something new and unexpected for me. And that is what I really enjoy about painting. What seems to be  consistent in my paintings is the play of light and colour.

I am very aware of the traditions in representational and abstract painting and am striving to add another link through my own researches and experiments.

 I have been a painter for over forty years. I live and work in London, UK.