LANDSCAPE
My fascination in portraying landscapes started when I was about seven years old following a visit to an architect's officet. It was a real feast to see entire walls covered with architectural drawings. This was my first understanding of perspective. I was amazed by how the viewer could visualise what was not completely depicted: this was a revelation to me.
My passion to draw and paint began then. As I improved technically, I discovered that the depicted subject looked different depending on my visualisation of it. With time and practice, I began to see patterns in urban landscapes: of light and shade, of shapes and sizes, of what I chose to see and how I chose to represent them.
I found oil paints were a brilliant medium to narrate my interpretation of the fabric of the places I visited. They are not painted in situ, from memory, allowing fragments of visual data to combine with my subjective and emotional response. Landscape is an ongoing series that allows me to narrate what I’m moved by.
I have been particularly absorbed in painting light, one of the most universal and fundamental symbols representing hope and wisdom. This series of work convey my experience of a place or time.
