1996-1999
bachelor fine arts ( paint)
national art school
sydney
2003
masterclass
the learning connexion
wellington
I live in the extra ordinary world of paint learning on a daily basis and trusting the paint to take me on a journey through its crazy world.
My abstract work relies on black and white which teach colour to learn the process is discovery and intuition and the layers keep going till the paint finds its seat or space.
The colours and shapes differ depending whose saying, singing, humming or listening, finding a rhythm to dance, hop, wander or think is what the colour looks for.
Also I need to reinsert the real and I paint outside where I’m at Wellington has a heap of inspiring scapes, and then the land of New Zealand as well pings some nice work.
Together these worlds talk to each other, the real and the abstract, the eye and the mind.
I’m writing about black and white at the moment because I need to try to understand these powerful colours.
To fully express my intensions I write to clarify my mind and put words in a fashion which make sense to me.
As I write I sometimes despair at what it is this time I shall try to understand.
The paint has gone to a different place. I think resting, sheltering from a potential storm that may or may not be brewing.
I assume there is a simmer going on as the brusher and layerer of paint I am in a phase I know not. I realise answers aren’t everything and its the
journey that creates the inspiration but am I at another crossroad faced with more than one path to explore. If I take this one I may not see what the other offers then again I have my suspicions that they all do actually end up at a very similar place.
The next junction of thought so I assume focus is really the main battle. I experience that of staying on the given route till the very end only then will I see what it is to be seen.