The experience of landscape has always been central to my activity as an artist and is seen most obviously in the topographical pen drawings. No tone is used and there is little attempt to elaborate detail, lines suggest the main features of the subject but also exist as patterns creating spatial tensions across the white surface of the paper.

The linear quality of these drawings is present in much of my activity as an artist in painting, sculpture and works on paper. The abstract language used here is not intended to lose contact with the world but involves a more complex response to my understanding of twentieth century art and also music and poetry. The works on paper make use of simple geometric shapes which are in some way connected with objects in space such as buildings and hills. The shapes and structure are built up from precise geometric units and are developed in series. Numbers, words and sometimes fragments of poetry make reference to the way in which we try to order our understanding and knowledge while colour and paint stress the fugitive and personal quality of experience.

November 1989