Untitled Document

A continuous compulsion to produce images leads to work in two and three dimensions. Sometimes this is obviously derived form observation, at other times the ideas develop in the mind and in the making. It has always been the making and the made that counts. Materials, landscape, the human figure, words and humour mix together to produce a variety of themes, bound together by my limitations and encounters. My first one-man show consisted of life drawings and landscape paintings. The following two shows were composed of abstract paintings. With hindsight it is obvious that these three events set the trend, with installations, improvisations and found objects all enriching the brew. Influences have come from the usual heady twentieth century mix - Cezanne to Cage: Jarry to Johns: Klee to Kline: Brecht to Beuys - all topped up by living and working within a stretch of Yorkshire that includes Leeds, Bradford and Hebden Bridge.