My paintings are produced through observation of the real world which I photograph and draw then I reduce and simplify the image into geometric forms. I then use my imagination and the paint to dictate the overall outcome of the painting. Using this implementation of a set of self imposed rules and objectives I use the physical immediacy of the flat geometric form, to convey an abstract reality out of the ordinary and every day. I use bright high key colours in an arbitrary way to express myself more forcibly as for me colours of equal luminance are read as joyful. My paintings also use a lot of contrasting elements of shape, form colour and texture to add an extra dimension to the painted surface. Although my forms are abstract my paintings give viewers suggestions to help them perceive pictorial images within my paintings. The influences for my paintings are first and foremost everything I see feel and experience, modernist practices and the natural and manmade environment. Painting for me allows me to reflect and reinvent the things I see, not to imitate reality but to conceive and create a new reality as a painting. I believe that painting is influenced by our lives but it also has an independent identity of its own. I use paint as my medium for expression because it allows for serendipity and invention. This particular body of work was inspired by the seashore especially the harbour.
