I generally believe that visual art - at least my work - should speak for itself. For me, a painting or drawing transmits energy.

An energy capable of shifting our emotional and intellectual perceptions while nourishing our material visual sensibilities through a carefully chosen surface and medium. Thinly brushed oil paint or rapid movements of pencil or charcoal allow me to trace and deposit this "energy" direct from life.

This makes the "act of looking" a mysterious experience and therein lies the deep attraction.

Often an image arrives as a "call" from my immediate surroundings; it could be anything from a building, an abandoned child's toy or someone asleep; I am moved to respond.

An inarticulate conversation begins; an intimacy, a union, follow. Why this image? The answer is I don't all together know. It's very enigmatic.

The result is something like alchemy, rather like oil resting on water: if we look close we can see the colours of the rainbow.