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My main medium is oil painting, I use oils as a means to utilise the figurative with
the abstract. To be able to create the effect of flow, and form, to merge the figurative
with the abstract. My main subject concerns music, energy, colour and depth. I
use colour as a form in order to bring out the maximum effect and flexibility of
oil on stretched canvas, to merge the figurative with the abstract with movement.
I also do drawings in conjunction with my painting. I like to work at various sizes,
so I can maximise the effect of the painting/drawing. I mix my colour, to give depth,
to bring out the subjects with the other colours, to form a basis for merging & re-
Now my work emphasises depth and colour. I utilise colour with which I give the picture
maximum effect. Have painted the objects as I see them in my mind, a distorted reality
that inhabit. The images of the world around me seem distorted and my mind tries
to reason and interpret them. Only when I use depth and juxtaposed coloured images
can I reason with everything around me and make sense of it. Paintings take on myriad
forms and usually with still life create images of glass bottles, bowls and glass
balls as a starting point and expand on the subject by reflecting glass on glass
tables. My work gives me an outlook on specific objects that can be transparent
and can be remoulded into a metaphor for what society could be. It gives me the
power over my immediate surroundings from which I can mould objects according to
my imagination and then re-
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