Drawing is a regular practice for me, and although my abstract paintings are rarely based on drawings, they share a similar contrast between the different ways of engaging with materials and creating form.

In this process, I resist the urge to turn marks into a represented image, preferring to express the energy and atmosphere of the landscapes and other subjects that inspire me.

As the Irish writer Colm Toibìn once said of the artist Jack Yeats “he did not paint to explain the world, but to enrich our sense of its mystery”.