ARTIST STATEMENT

Often I am asked to explain my source of inspiration and the meaning of my imagery.

An idea for an image can be inspired by a landscape, the shape of a tree, a rock or stone, the sound of waves or a band rehearsal going wrong, a theatre or dance performance, an experience, a social situation or a comment my children make, as much as their drawings or other pieces of art work. Inspiration can strike quite unexpected and anywhere.

I am interested in the structures behind the obvious, what it is that holds together an object… or makes it function… or what displaced it… or what the essence of its appeal to others and me is… or what motivates people to behave in certain ways…

When making a print the image in my mind gets deconstructed and reassembled as it physically develops. Here the image in its different stages and the materials used push the initial idea further. From the drawing to the finished print I embark on a journey where the outcome is not always foreseeable.

My imagery is never a representation of the circumstance or object that inspired it, but an improvisation of my initial idea.

It is important to me to create these ‘worlds of their own', that otherwise would not exist. It is a sur-real concept.

When an observer's imagination is inspired to find their own individual ‘picture' in my prints then I have achieved something worth doing.

Imagination is what else there might be.

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