The painting is covered in a mix of oil and emulsion paint but it's more of a construction and a carving than a painting.

This quote from Barnett Newman made me chuckle, "Aesthetics is to artists what ornithology is to birds".

If we draw a cowboy on a horse, we simultaneously draw the shape around the cowboy on his horse. We create what we do and don't intend.

The square is decided for us. All we have to do is decide what to put inside it.

I'll usually have a very basic, imprecise plan but the objective when I draw, is just to draw.

Sometimes unnatural is the only thing that makes sense.

Convenient as it is for curators and art historians to divide art into distinct form v expression camps, creativity resists pigeonholing.

This article on one of my favourite singers, the late Damo Suzuki, got me reflecting on the improvisatory nature of my practice.

If something anaesthetic dulls the senses, the aesthetic experience wakens and stimulates the senses - not pleasantly necessarily.