One of Many Favourite Quotes

"The calm of Martins paintings is a sea calm - despite the pacific horizontality, something on the surface still moves" Shiff, R, 2002. pp. 130 - 131

As you draw close you can see in my work, smoothness yields to irregularity. What you perceive is more incident, than disturbance. The small details in Anges Martin's work i find most interesting is when you fully engage with a work like Martins you see the artist hand at present as each individual line is carefully drawn by hand, resulting is minor hiccups and small wobbles upon the surface, sometimes razor thin, sometimes bumping the crests of the canvas weave.

Agnes Martin states: "A hint of imperfection is enough to make a painting alive"

I make my paintings through a process of failure as some colours don't respond to each other the way I wanted them to so they would be painted over, yet still remaining as a presence as there forms would emerge through the top layer of the painting. A painting that has had a long journey to the finish has a sort of liveliness demonstrated in my painting, the opaque hue of the paper has a subtle movement as edges of previous forms are made known.  As a viewer for both Martin and my work you are requires to stare and gaze at the works to cause them to reveal their faint brush strokes and make aware the random occurrences that happened along the way.