Still and other lives

There is something of the meditative and hermetic about sitting in a room alone, studying objects of little importance with a concentration rarely given to anything else in our lives.

I started using still-ilfe arrangements through an interest in formally constructed non-representative painting. Using objects as stand-ins for abstract shapes: 1. enables me to explore  the qualities of space that seem to be a constant within the history of painting; 2. provides a reference  from outside the discrete space of the painting; 3. provides a type of pleasure in looking,  beyond that of only the formal qualities of colour and shape.

I have no intention of making photo-like reproductions of what I see. I try to use paint imaginatively and fluidly to record the process of looking.

All work sized in centimetres.

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