I work in the fields of painting, collage and assemblage. My paintings are atmospheric renderings of landscape, and the prints and collages are more abstract, the collages incorporating weathered manmade materials with organic fragments. It intrigues me how these resemble each other are they erode.Wherever I live and work I walk, and on these walks I pick up things. the objects may be disparate, stems or fragments of leaves crushed by cars, plastic shards, discarded lists, cash slips or school work dropped on the way home and trodden into the surface of the road. Occasionally I may come across a rich haul of objects which can form a complete work in themselves.when making a collage, the first few elements seem to come together by chance. Afterwards a succession of choices defines the gradual putting together of the image. The initial placing may be left for a time, a day, a month, a year. The objects/fragments gain new life through their relationship to each other and the space around, through juxtapositions, contrasting textures and qualities.I am currently working more "out of the frame", making wall hung and free-standing assemblages with a symbolic feel.
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