The way I work developed organically from notebooks I started to keep when in college studying design and photography. I loved image making , working with text and learning new techniques but I found it very difficult to stick to a brief, because once I started to put ideas down on paper the images in front of me kind of took over and I felt compelled to explore the possibilities for expression different combinations offered.
I am constantly experimenting with material, scale, colour approach but always returned to the same notebook sized format as a way of distilling what I am trying to do to its essence. As a body of work it all represents a kind of visual diary where different emotions and ideas are explored and overlap and cross-pollinate. Recurring motifs and patterns keep coming through - mark-making, time, repetition, a deep interest in eastern philosophy and aesthetics, constant variation and refinement and a fascination with the endless possibilities for emotional expression offered by combining colours.
Over the years I have progessively eliminated anything I felt was extraneous and tried to achieve a natural simplicity, which has proven to be not as easy as it sounds.