Questing for the Sculptured Textures that define my early visual exposure, and seeking to create my own responsive textural gardens, generates works, created within a flashing instinctive mind vision, that oozes inner excitement, whimsiness and a coherent aesthetic that somehow fullfills the minds desire. There is a preoccupation with texture in my work, generally, that I can only attribute to the naturally sculptured textures of the rocks and clumsy windswept unsheltered landscape from which I come. This rawness appeals to the inner sanctum, there is a Spirit of Wild Freedom, which continually inhabits that place, there is desire for misplacement, wind and strewn debris. This is my true romantic lyrical landscape. In search of debris, and sculptured textures for these works, I not only employ layers of sculptured paint to the surface, but I also seek the sculpture of found items, layers of applied thin papers, sculptured in situ, debris from past experiments, organic waste, sand and gravel. The development of such works may evolve over twenty layers, sometimes more, sometimes less. What is important is the organic process, time, truth to feeling and individualism. The rugged tapestry that eventually evolves in this way, defines my narrative as an arts practioner - a blend of decoration and free expression, of freedom of movement and of embedded positioning, of minute detail and wild brushstrokes, of texture and freedom floating, compositions of extremities, simplicity and complexity that mingle and energise, suggest but do not define!
