| ARTIST'S STATEMENT |
| I have had many jobs, I have worn many hats, but it was when I recognised myself as an artist and followed that path, that I finally felt a perfect fit. The process of creating for me, is one which is relatively unplanned. My drawings and paintings come to me in two ways; either a vision that pops in my head and I sketch it; or I start sketching and these flowing shapes and patterns emerge from my pencil. When I get a vision in my head it is rather like a "snapshot", a quick flash and then there's a picture for me to see. These cerebral photographs are the symbolic interpratations of the emotions, thoughts and current events happening in and around my life. When I have an overwhelming urge to express emotions, I pick up a pencil and let my hand go, without thought as to what is to be created. Generally I just draw until the entire canvas is covered and then I step back to see what has been created. After seeing my work, a woman once said to me that my art is " Divinely guided". I embrace this explanation, for it implies that I am not creating art because I choose to be an artist but rather because being an artist chose me; I was designed to be an artist. I'm compelled to create, I need to create. Creating art releases all that I take in from the world; the good, the bad and especially the ugly and it puts it back out there in a form that can be beautiful, inspiring, enjoyable and passively provoking. |