Beathing space/escape.

It's nice to do work where creation and exploration are the keys and communication is (not necessarily) secondary to this.

According to Pliny(XXXV.88, 81): It was Apelles who established the reputation of Protogenes when he made it known that he, himself, was buying his work with the intention of selling it as his own. Only then was the artist appreciated by his countrymen. Once, he visited Protogenes, only to find that he was not at home. On a large panel in the man's studio, he painted a single fine colored line. When the artist returned and saw what had been done, he knew his visitor to have been Apelles. He then drew an even finer line in another color exactly over the first one. When Apelles came again, he drew a third line, this time so exquisitely fine that no other could be drawn.

I have executed these pieces in low-relief plaster which echoes both sculpture and frescoes that would have been contemporary to Pliny. Through carving and dyeing the plaster I have combined aspects of these methods.

This is a series of drawings to help me edit myself as I draw. I have been concentrating on describing places using a minimum of line.

Essentially I want blank pages with a few lines over them as though a spider crawled from an inkwell. The result could just as easily describe ruffled white bedclothes in a pure white morning light.

This work takes my obsession over order and tidy grids to the traditional surface of a painting. The untreated canvas is suspended over a grid that altenates between pushing and pulling it. I am interested in the rises and falls, heights and troughs of the surface tension. The canvas is like a relief map with a totally regimented order to it.

The base is cast plaster. This is engraved with a knife to describe geometries of its dimensions. Another plaster is made up and mixed with crushed pastel. This is enbedded and excess sanded off. It is then sealed with beeswax.

How do you paint order? How do you do it without symmetry and at peace with itself? How do you do it without it becoming dull?

I'm not sure that I know but I am trying to find out.

This is a series of drawings to help me edit myself as I draw. I have been concentrating on describing places using a minimum of line.

Essentially I want blank pages with a few lines over them as though a spider crawled from an inkwell. The result could just as easily describe ruffled white bedclothes in a pure white morning light.

This was the first piece from an idea I had a while ago to trace the meaning of a word through related meanings and words. In this I can describe the myriad comprehensions and contradictions we understand when speaking. You can click the image or this text to get closer to see why hate leads to money

This was the first piece from an idea I had a while ago to trace the meaning of a word through related meanings and words. In this I can describe the myriad comprehensions and contradictions we understand when speaking. You can click the image or this text to get closer to see why hate leads to money

Fetish in a Box was the show's title; but what is a fetish?

I constructed a carboard box that contains a word grid derived from the four connotations of fetish - An object of religious devotion, an object believed to have spiritual powers, a non-sexual object that causes desire or a fixation.

I wanted to divide the world logically. To ignore landmarks and geographic features like a conquering general. To have the unpredictability of a landscape submit to a rigourous order.

I plotted shapes on some maps, dissected and re-assembled others and constructed some from scratch.

My first attempt to create something non-figurative.

I simply set out to create something that speaks of peace and calm through visual rhythm. Actually does that sound simple?