ARTIST STATEMENT
OCTOBER 2007.

          A conundrum of art practice is the tension between the planned and the spontaneous. Considerations of an intellectual nature vie with intuition, impulse, immediate and direct mark-making similar to Sume-e; I spontaneously brush in an image and when the dust has settled ignore changes prompted by rules and conventions, changes that will tidy the untidy and tame the primitive in concern for polish and refinement.
          When should we intrude into a stream of consciousness? Only the artist can decide that; the artist should be true to principles, have an open mind, be resolute in bearing the burden of making art, be prepared to swim against the current seeking beauty and truth in the mundane, the imperfect, interstices and the ordinary.
          Art is not to be explained, it is to be lived with; to be an “itch”.

         John Bartlett.