So many things seem to be coming apart at the seams; systems, structures both physical and conceptual. We question and test everything in the 21st century, picking over the remnants like vultures at a feast. These works all refer to what happens to structures during the process of unconstruction, what is revealed, what disappears and what dominates. We used to play a children's game, "Ker-plunk" I think it was called, the aim being to remove as many straws as possible before the crazy structures we had bulit collapsed.

My initial perceptual responses are from a wide range of sources, both man-made and natural phenomena. Memory eventually allows the significant to emerge, colour combinations, shapes, rythms, depths, sounds, temperature, movement and atmospherics which are then distilled to form the basis of my mark-making. The paintings are made of numerous thin layers of oil paint which gives the colours an intensity and depth. They are continually adjusted in relation to one another spatially, they sink or rise below and above the imaginary visual surface of the painting. The border linear markings refer to an underlying structure that holds the gauze like layers together, interrupted by flashes of colour reminiscent of things seen at the periphery of one's vision.