Chairs represent structures built to suspend the human figure. Empty, they stand ready to function, but exist as forms to be admired. Artists and architects, not to mention furniture designers, have long admired the ability of a simple form (legs, seat, backrest optional) to take on infinite variations. Any colour, from stained wood to polished chrome are a go. Chairs can be high or low, and the significance of that choice alone is significant.
By way of contrast, the canoe has a more specific shape - a long half cylinder that is built to slice through the water it displaces.

Transitions 2007 - 2012

At some point, my work made the change from an examination of objects through photography (especially chairs) set against an abstracted background, to a wholly integrated abstraction of form itself (especially the intersection of the curve and straight line). This transition came in part from a new way of working...

Leaving reality behind in 2007 I began doing a great deal of drawing -- doodles really. This doodles sprang from my imagination, and once there the chair started to be overwhelmed by the background. Slowly, the background and foreground elements flattened.

By way of contrast, the canoe has a more specific shape - a long half cylinder that is built to slice through the water it displaces. It is a distinctly man-made form because of its paradoxes -- light weight but strong, primitive once yet high-tech today. But despite being man-made, the canoe form melds seamlessly into its environment of shifting waters, white-capped waves, and migrating fish and fauna.

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Graphic Work

Drawing on inspiration from art noveau, the graphic quality of my images make them well suited for adaption for publishing

Drawing

Drawing on inspiration from art noveau, the graphic quality of my images make them well suited for adaption for publishing.

Painting

A common observation of much of my recent work is the sense that Indigenous art has influenced me, though I have no claim to such heritage, and I intend to pave my own artistic path free of appropriation.