With this series, I am painting in reverse. The canvas is dyed with a dark black or indigo. I then begin bleaching parts of the surface to reveal lighter areas. The process happens slowly, in many layers, as I attempt to encourage an ethereal light into the artwork. Finally I add layers of paint, and occasionally ground gypsum crystals in acrylic medium. The result is hopefully very open and suggestive of a numinous experience. The paintings appear simultaneously as portals and as veils and come from an instinct for a kind of light that I have felt all of my life.

I would say these paintings are figurative in a way. They depict a sense of being,the feeling in the body, rather than the body itself. I am trying to get to the essence, in all things, to get to a kind of singularity, or simplicity. These works feel like they come out of a process, and even then I feel like they come through me,rather than from me. So really all I’m doing is setting up experiments, working mindfully, and trying to get out of the way as much as possible so the magic can happen.

Nature is central to my work. Placing my body in nature always brings me back to the source of why I do what I do. Certain places have more significance to me,mostly because they are places where the connection with nature is strongest.To quote Lee Ufan; ‘Our body does not belong just to us. It creates a relationship with the world. And this relationship is the most interesting thing of all.’