| Painting for me is a question of making a creative response to those internal voices which seem to cry out for expression at different times. What I require from myself is not the concentration that comes from will power but the focused creative energy that comes from being alive to each moment and from being aware of and responding to each internal impulse. The impulse to begin a painting is usually a very small thing – perhaps a relationship between two elements of different shapes and colours and the tension that is created by their juxtaposition. Such a juxtaposition creates a spatial complexity which has a psychological dimension. Because of this it has the potential to express my response to a place or object that I have drawn. The time lapse between drawing and painting is unpredictable. I have recently been making paintings of Barcelona where I stayed last September. I have also been painting Egyptian works but haven’t been to Egypt since 1986. |
