I think of myself as a multi-disciplinary artist, working across the mediums of painting, mosaic, drawing and digital media. This site is a comprehensive archive of personal works produced over the last 30 years. Over the same period, I have worked in the architectural sector, designing and fabricating mosaic floors and panels to commission. I have a site dedicated to this work. See here.
A primary driver of my interests is the notion of an interconnected and interdependent universe. This can be in the physical or behavioural world, and on an individual or societal level. Therefore, systems, structures, formulas, modularity and patterns all manifest themselves in my work.
I work intuitively, mostly making works in series which are not planned to produce any set number of works, rather until it seems the right time to explore other thoughts. I will often return to themes and repeat or reinterpret, so overall feel that there is a sort of 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 processes.
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)