I have often likened my artistic development to that of a long train journey. It started as a young boy at junior and secondary school, continued at Doncaster School of Art and on to Edinburgh College of Art: I am still aboard this train.
There have been many stops along the way: diversions into sidings, several unexpected delays, changes to the timetable and hitting the buffers. Throughout my artistic journey however, there has been a constant progress and many changes have taken place.
There are many constant themes inhabiting my work such as watching light moving across forms; trying to disentangle myself from the labels we put on objects; making the paint reveal its progress, and looking for harmonious and discordant relationships; trying to make informed decisions and revealing how less is more (i.e. what is left out); rendering light, atmosphere and place; responding to the intensity of mood and the visual strength of visual relationships; revealing the narrative of the physical presence of the subject matter, enhancing the depth and illusion of space.
Throughout my journey, my work has continued to evolve from figurative to derivative and into abstraction.