I think of myself as a multi-disciplinary artist, working across the mediums of painting, drawing, mosaic, digital and other media. This site is intended as a comprehensive archive of works produced over the last 30 years. Over the same period, I have worked in the architectural and design sector producing site-specific mosaics for commercial and public art projects. I have a site dedicated to this work. See here.
Systems, structures, formulas, modularity and patterns are at the heart of all my work. Therefore materials and processes underpin everything I make. This all stems from the notion that we live in an interconnected and interdependent world. This can be physical or behavioural, and on an individual or societal level. Coexistence is everything.
I mostly produce works in series which are not planned to any set number of works or timescale, rather until it seems the right time to explore other thoughts. I will often return to themes and repeat or reinterpret. There is no singular style or aesthetic that i wish adhere too. Rather feeling that there is a drift of ideas which I follow, allowing the process of making to determine a way forward.
During my studies at The Camberwell College of Arts, I came across an essay ‘The Modularity of Knowing’ by the physicist Philip Morrison. A particular sentence struck a chord with me which still resonates today. I feel it provides a useful connection to my thought process.
Indeed, we nowadays regard all the world as built out of certain subatomic fundamental modules, or particles, whose classes we are still enumerating. Why they are precisely identical by classes we know not. They seem to occur in families, as the tiles of a mosaic, grouped not by colour but by sets of other intrinsic properties. They interact with each other in ways which are complex, but which themselves reflect a complex set of essentially discrete rules. Out of all this tangled skein time has woven the fabric of the world.
(Module, Symmetry, Proportion. Edited by Gyorgy Kepes. London; Studio Vista, 1966 p1)